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No to the Invasion
The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College will present No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects, an exhibition of works drawn from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation, a collecting philanthropic institution based in the United Arab Emirates. The exhibition, featuring works dating from 1990 to 2016, conjures various histories intersecting a shared geo-political space: The Arabic-speaking world—a geographic region that includes the twenty-two countries of the Arab League and whose contemporary coordinates lay between Mauritania, North Africa, and West Asia. To begin in 1990 is to recall a socio-political landscape characterized by shifting regimes of power following Pan-Arabism, the Cold War, the Kuwait War, and the end of the Lebanese Civil War. Today, while battles in Syria and Iraq continue to rage and people are increasingly displaced, radicalism and neoliberal capitalism thrive. The rumblings of these social, political, and economic histories provide a framework for critical engagement with the exhibited works.
The title of the show was borrowed from a 1990 linocut print of the same name produced by the Kuwaiti artist Thuraya Al-Baqsami three days after the start of the Iraq-Kuwait war and intended as a resistance poster against the invasion. In the print, which will be on view, the phrase ‘no to the invasion’ appears in Arabic below two figures pictured lamenting the aggression. The works in this exhibition propose an expanded meaning of the term invasion, one that goes beyond connotations of incursion, trespassing, and violation to include a sudden surge or confrontation. Here, the phrase ‘no to the invasion’ might be a refusal of irruptions by the media, global capital, or regional magnates on one’s space, mind, or body. In particular, the works articulate the body as it is subjected to various conditions of surveillance, representation, and disaster. In such works as Akram Zaatari’s Her + Him, (2001-2011) documentation of a personal encounter offers a critical examination of photographic portraiture and its language. In Ala Younis’s Plan for Greater Baghdad (2015), archival research materials and an imagined urban plan reinforce the notion that architecture is an expression of power, one that acts upon the body. These projects—which range from research-based and experimental documentary to engagements with abstraction and conceptualism—tell us something about the limits of representation, the production of histories, and the transformation of landscapes.
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Pierce Bivens is a 15-year-old musical prodigy hailing from the island of Kauai. Despite his young age, he is considered to be one of the most accomplished musicians on the island. His skills as a guitarist and songwriter have landed him sponsorships with Kamoa Ukuleles and Bandwagon Studios. In 2016, Pierce landed the lead role of Dewey Finn in Hawaii Children’s Theater’s production of Broadway hit ‘School of Rock’. He also nearing completion of his first full length album with Grammy Music Teacher Award nominee & Na Hoku-nominated producer Jeremy Hartshorn. The project is set for release in early 2017.
At age 12, Pierce began released his first EP Listen To Me. The project was completed in summer of 2014 and features the break-out anthem “Bully” that showcases Pierce’s virtuosic guitar playing, relatable lyrics, and sharp songwriting chops. | 2021-05-13T09:07:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243990584.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20210513080742-20210513110742-00329.warc.gz | en | 0.967518 | 206 | {
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While Alexander Gustafsson acclimates to Texas, Daniel Cormier says his goodbyes at home in San Jose.
UFC light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier discussed his upcoming title defense against Alexander Gustafsson, Jon Jones' recent plea deal, and more at UFC 192's open
Alexander Gustafsson discussed Jon Jones' pending return to the light heavyweight division, not training at Alliance MMA, preparing to fight Daniel Cormier at UFC 192,
There are many that feel Jon Jones doesn't deserve an immediate title shot when he returns to the UFC, just don't count Daniel Cormier among
UFC light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier seeks to cement his legacy with a title defense against striker Alexander “The Mauler” Gustafsson at UFC 192.
On Episode 1 of UFC 192 Embedded, Tyron Woodley takes to the Cardinals’ mound in St. Louis, while Johny Hendricks plays soccer with his kids
UFC light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier weighs in on stripped former champion Jon Jones' legal woes and his belief that Rashad Evans will be next.
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UFC light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier and No. 1 contender Alexander Gustafsson talk about their UFC 192 title showdown, while Joe Rogan offers his thoughts.
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UFC light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier believes that he needs to rematch and defeat former titleholder Jon Jones to solidify his mixed martial arts career.
Listen to the UFC 192: Cormier vs. Gustafsson media conference call featuring the main and co-main event headliners streaming live on Friday at 2 p.m.
Newly crowned UFC light heavyweight champ Daniel Cormier offers his analysis on the state of the 205-pound division and those seeking to knock him off
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Unbeaten at the time, Daniel Cormier faced light heavyweight legend Dan Henderson at UFC 173 and got the finish.
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Daniel Cormier believes two things: he's the real UFC champ and he'll one day fight Jon Jones again.
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Community Message 11-25-11: Security Practices
I've received a message from the Officers of the Doctoral Students' Council regarding security practices at the Graduate Center. I was pleased to have their thoughtful inquiry. The concerns they raised are of general import, so I take the liberty of answering in the form of a community message. I will also address security issues their letter did not raise. I'll begin with some specifics and then turn to broader themes.
I've been asked whether the size of our security staff has been increased. It has not. To the contrary, staffing has been reduced in the last year by 4.2 positions. That reduction is the consequence of an over 50% increase in contract guard billing rates. Since 1999, we are down a total of seven positions. We have had some turn-over this year, so if you see an unfamiliar face, please introduce yourself.
The greater security presence in the building last Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and again on Monday, resulted from holding officers from the 7 to 3 shift over and bringing in the 3 to 11 staff early. No external personnel were involved. The cost attendant to that action will be absorbed through savings effected in our security budget in the course of the year.
We took that action at the request of CUNY central, as did every CUNY college. The request was made in response to a number of non-specific web notices concerning college occupations. We complied for two reasons: first, to ensure the peace of our community in uncertain circumstances; and second -- and more important -- to guarantee that should the need for additional security staff arise, they would be members of our community, not people whom we do not know and who do not know us.
There was no intent to intimidate students, staff, or faculty; the dispersal of officers throughout the building, rather than grouping a larger than usual number of security staff at the entrance to the Graduate Center or elsewhere in the building, was meant to avoid that very prospect. I deeply regret any perception to the contrary.
Graduate Center peace officers have been trained in first amendment rights as well as the laws of arrest, search, seizure, and the lawful use of force. They have been authorized by New York State law to make arrests for violation of NYS penal code; they may use reasonable force to protect themselves and others. They are not authorized to conduct surveillance of students, staff, or faculty. This point is self-evident to me, but I make it in deference to concerns raised about such activity at other colleges.
There are no plans whatsoever for a sustained increase in security. Should occasional need arise, additional officers would be drawn from our current staff.
Security staff regularly check on all events in the building to insure compliance with NYC fire codes and to gather attendance statistics for the Office of Special Events. They do not report on the content of those events.
Although we have only eight uniformed peace officers, our practice is to respond to Graduate Center protest activity with Graduate Center personnel. NYPD is responsible for protecting public officials attending events at the Graduate Center and for policing the sidewalks around our building. Only in an emergency would they be called into the Graduate Center.
All of the above is nuts and bolts. Here's what matters, my friends. We are a university, a community of scholars. The vital exchange of ideas is the heart of our enterprise. That's one of the two pillars that sustain a university and underwrite its very being. The other is respect, the protection of the rights of all to pursue their work and to conduct their lives. Free speech and civility are mutually sustaining. Each is meaningless without the other. Defending both -- absolutely -- is the challenge we face. Thus far, we have, together, succeeded. Our security staff, under the direction of John Flaherty, has been -- in my opinion -- flawless in supporting peaceful protest and free assembly. They deserve our thanks. Similarly, faculty, students, and staff who have participated in the variety of activities associated with the Occupy movement have been both forceful in their expression and respectful in their exchange. I've been reminded again and again that the Graduate Center is a remarkable place and that I am very privileged to be a member of this community.
With respect and deep regard,
Submitted on: DEC 15, 2011
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- May 29, 1913 - March 28, 2015
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Dora was born on May 29, 1913 and passed away on Saturday, March 28, 2015.
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How your business can apply more intelligence to the budgeting process
Apr 25, 2012 2:02:00 PM
Over recent months there have been several articles written on the topic of Finance and Procurement coming together for the greater good. Following on from this theme, this post looks at what value Procurement can bring to the overall budgeting process.
From a Finance perspective, effective budgeting requires historical/current data and future projections, combined with knowledge and insights to draw out trends and highlight performance gaps. Often those departmental leaders who paint a rosier picture of the future (usually those closely related to revenue growth activities) or deal with highly complex 'specialist areas' (think IT / Marketing) will tend to receive more (if not all) of their budget requests, whilst those unable to articulate their requirements effectively will not. And articulating a highly complex business need or plan to a non-expert, in areas such as IT or Marketing, is not easy. Why do you think IT often is a great unknown that receives large budgets with little accountability?
Additionally, when the top line is not growing as fast as it has in the past, the overall budget pot inevitably becomes stretched. As such, during the budgeting process our friends in Finance have to use the blunt instrument of slashing budget requests through rough analysis and gut-feel. This is by no means meant to be a negative reflection on Finance's approach to budgeting. However, Finance faces the difficult challenge of scrutinising and challenging the various buckets of spend, each with complex and intelligent rationales sitting behind them, when Finance itself is not an expert in each of the particular fields or departments requesting budget. So how can they do this? How can they offer informed commercial challenge? How can they cut through the 'bull' that department heads add onto certain spend areas?
Why not involve the people who understand how much things cost and are able to impact change across the organisations? That is - Procurement.
Now, before you begin to cynically scoff, there is a requirement that Procurement has some grasp on both business and department objectives (ideally with some level of amicable relationship at the department level already underway). With this as a base, there are two alternative methods for approaching the budgeting process:
- Finance continues to apply the tried and trusted blunt instrument to each budget BUT rather than leave the department Head feeling slightly perturbed and frustrated that they now have to achieve the same objective with less cash behind them, setup a forum in which Procurement and the department Head discuss how the two teams can drive better efficiencies out of the reduced budget from the external supply market.
- The budgeting cycle begins earlier - at least for the departments. Under Finance's directive, the Procurement team works alongside each of the departments (similar to a Finance partner - however the Procurement partner focuses externally on the supply market) to build up the budget based on current information together (taking into account various cost ranges along the way). The department Head is then able to take more accurate and current figures back to the budget meeting - with a range of options for fluctuating spend up or down depending on the final budget figure.
So the budget process and mid-year budget cuts need not be a painful process. Indeed, it can be the catalyst to improve communication, cross-functional working, innovation and work towards a culture of better commercial rigour.
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Art, archeology, craftsmanship, gastronomy, nature and folklore melt themselves harmoniously in this inside zone of the Sicily. To Caltanissetta deserve a visit the attractive square Garibaldi, decorated to the center from the Fontana of Tritone that sees, a facing the other one, the church of San Sebastiano of nineteenth century and the Cattedrale dedicated to Santa Maria Nova; in town besides found aristocratic palaces and castles, villas and abbeys. left the town we find to Gela an important archoelogical zone a deposition of the ellenica civility. The natural landscape is characterized from the yellow color of the grain, of the sulphur and of the sun interrupted from the green of the olives and from the blue of the numerous lakes carsici. Than parties and festivals, where melt themselves sacred and profane, excellent wine, oil, torrone, splendid ceramics, you embroider refined or colored complete the painting of this wonderful land.
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HERE I AM HUMAN HERE THEY LET ME BE
The Boutique Hotel Hollmann Beletage is a pilgrimage destination for people with taste in every way. If you want to experience modern design, harmony and special lifestyle in perfection, you should knock on the door of this small design hotel in Vienna. Radiating white walls and the renouncement of decorative objects and pictures make the rooms of the Stadthotel open and airy.
Living in the Hollmann Beletage
The rooms of the Wienhotel Hollmann Beletage are either large (20-25 sqm) or extra large (35 sqm). Diesel-like and chic furnishings, as in the public areas of the design hotel, make a Vienna holiday in the rooms an exceptionally harmonious residential experience. A special highlight of the rooms is the bathroom: hidden behind an inconspicuous wardrobe wall of light natural wood, it is integrated directly into the living area.
The cuisine in the Hollmann Beletage
At the Boutique Hotel Hollmann Beletage the food tastes just as the design looks: simply convincing! No wonder, because in this design hotel practically everything comes from a single source. Robert Hollmann is not only the owner of the ideas and hosts, but also the kitchen chef at the charming Stadthotel in Vienna. In the restaurant Hollmannsalon the actor, hotelier and chef spoils his guests with original and very tempting dishes.
The service in the Hollmann Beletage
The atmosphere at the Stadthotel Hollmann Beletage in Vienna is pleasantly personal and relaxed. The service is attentive and very friendly. Fresh fruit and fresh flowers await the guest in his room. Also a hand-written welcome greeting. A ready-packed bag with bathing accessories for the visit to the wellness area of the design hotel is available in the closet. This is how a city-dweller Vienna makes fun from the very first moment!
Address: Köllnerhofgasse 6 | 1010 Wien
Telephone: +43.1.96 11 960
U1 & U4 Schwedenplatz | Straßenbahn 1 & 2
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Original German WWII Heer Army Medal and Insignia Grouping
Original Items: Only One Set Available. The German Army (German: Heer) was the land forces component of the Wehrmacht, the regular German Armed Forces, from 1935 until it was demobilized and later dissolved in August 1946.The Wehrmacht also included the Kriegsmarine (Navy) and the Luftwaffe (Air Force). During World War II, a total of about 13 million soldiers served in the German Army. Most army personnel were conscripted.
Only 17 months after Adolf Hitler announced publicly the rearmament program, the Army reached its projected goal of 36 divisions. During the autumn of 1937, two more corps were formed. In 1938, four additional corps were formed with the inclusion of the five divisions of the Austrian Army after the Anschluss in March. During the period of its expansion by Adolf Hitler, the German Army continued to develop concepts pioneered during World War I, combining ground (Heer) and air (Luftwaffe) assets into combined arms teams. Coupled with operational and tactical methods such as encirclement and the "battle of annihilation", the German military managed quick victories in the two initial years of World War II, prompting the use of the word Blitzkrieg (literally lightning war, meaning lightning-fast war) for the techniques used.
The German Army entered the war with a majority of its infantry formations relying on horse-drawn transport. The infantry remained foot soldiers throughout the war; artillery also remained primarily horse-drawn. The motorized formations received much attention in the world press in the opening years of the war, and were cited as the main reason for the success of the German invasions of Poland (September 1939), Norway and Denmark (April 1940), Belgium, France and Netherlands (May 1940), Yugoslavia (April 1941) and Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union (June 1941). However their motorized and tank formations accounted for only 20% of the Heer's capacity at their peak strength. The army's lack of trucks (and petroleum to run them) was a severe handicap to infantry movement especially during and after the Normandy invasion when Allied air power devastated the French rail network north of the Loire.
The following grouping consists of awards and insignia given to a solider in the German Army (Heer) during WW2. Every part of this set is 100% authentic (no reproductions) and in good to very good condition. The set is comprised as follows:
- Iron Cross 2nd Class (Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse - abbreviated as EK 2 or E.K.2.) The Iron Cross was awarded for bravery in battle as well as other military contributions in a battlefield environment.
- Infantry Assault Badge in Silver. The Infantry Assault Badge (German: Infanterie-Sturmabzeichen) was a German war badge awarded to Waffen SS and Wehrmacht Heer soldiers during the Second World War. This decoration was instituted on 20 December 1939 by the Commander-in-Chief of the German Army, Generalfeldmarschall Walther von Brauchitsch. It could be awarded to members of non-motorized Infantry units and units of the Gebirgsjäger that had participated in Infantry assaults, with light Infantry weapons, on at least three days of battle in the front line on or after 1 January 1940. When a counter offensive led to fighting, it could also apply. Award of the Infantry Assault Badge was authorized at regimental command level. The silver class was instituted on 20 December 1939 by the commander of the OKH, Walther von Brauchitsch, and was awarded to infantry soldiers according to one of the following criteria: To have taken part in at least three: infantry assaults (including counter-attacks) or at least three armed reconnaissance operations or engaged in hand-to-hand combat in an assault position or participated on three separate days in the restitution of combat positions.
- Early War Black Wound Badge. The Wound Badge (German: Verwundetenabzeichen) was a military decoration first promulgated by Wilhelm II, German Emperor on 3 March 1918, which was awarded to wounded or frostbitten soldiers of the Imperial German Army, during World War I. Between the world wars, it was awarded to members of the German armed forces who fought on the Nationalist side of the Spanish Civil War, 193839, and received combat related wounds. It was awarded to members in the Reichswehr, the Wehrmacht, SS and the auxiliary service organizations during the Second World War. After March 1943, due to the increasing number of Allied bombings, it was also awarded to wounded civilians in air raids. It was awarded when the wound was the result of enemy hostile action, with an exception being for frost-bite.
- Eastern Front Medal. The Eastern Front Medal (German: Medaille Winterschlacht im Osten 1941/42) was a World War II German military decoration awarded to both German and Axis personnel. It was for those who served on the German Eastern Front during the "first winter campaign" period of 15 November 1941 to 15 April 1942. It was instituted on 26 May 1942 and was commonly known as the Ostmedaille (East Medal). Geographic limits were placed on its award of east of Ukraine and Ostland or in the Finnland area, east of the 1940 Russo/Finnish border. It was officially decommissioned by Oberkommando der Wehrmacht on 4 September 1944. The medal was wryly called the Frozen Meat Medal or the "Order of the Frozen Flesh" (German: Gefrierfleischorden) by Heer, Luftwaffe and Waffen-SS personnel to whom it was awarded. They qualified for the badge after a minimum of 14 days served in active combat; 30 days of flying personnel over enemy held land; 60 days of continuous service in a "combat zone"; being wounded or suffering a "frozen limb", severe enough to warrant the issue of a Wound Badge.
- Steel Infantry Belt Buckle. Reads GOTT MIT UNS (God is with us) includes leather belt tab. The buckle is dated 1940 and is maker coded.
- Embroidered Breast Eagle. Embroidered breast eagle, grey thread embroidered on green wool for Army uniforms.
- NCO Infantry Shoulder Board Silver surround on green wool for Army uniforms.
- Late war model 43 cap insignia Embroidered on dark background.
A wonderful totally genuine grouping perfect for the WW2 German collector.
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There is consensus that the future of Uganda lies in education, yet very little is being done to fulfill the dream. Last week we talked about the negative impact of malnutrition on education. This time we are going to discuss the origin of modern education and how it has developed to the present.
Modern education was started by missionaries. Ugandans were provided with literary knowledge to be able to read the bible. In 1901, the Catholic chiefs in Buganda requested a revision in education to prepare children for a wider and changing world. Boarding schools were proposed. The first schools along these lines were started at Namilyango in 1901, Mengo High School in 1903, Gayaza High School in 1905, King’s College Budo in 1906 and Kisubi in 1906. They taught English grammar, reading, mathematics, geography, music and games. The majority of these schools were for sons and daughters of chiefs. Many children could not go to school because schools were not available or were expensive. Government financial support was very small.
However government provided schools for Asians, Goans and white children as well as Makerere to teach mechanics and carpentry and a few centers for training medical workers. Girls were initially educated so that sons of chiefs could have enlightened wives.
This week, we received one report and two speeches that were presented to parliament: report on the background to the budget for 2011/2012 fiscal year; Museveni’s address to parliament; and budget speech to parliament delivered by the minister of finance on behalf of the president. This is an annual exercise. The mandate, criteria used and data selected have distorted or omitted vital information.
1. The mandate of the background report to the budget is to highlight priorities of the coming national budget in the context of key economic trends and recent performance of government programs. The president’s mandate is to report what was done in the last twelve months and to appraise members of parliament of plans and strategies for the next twelve months. The mandate in the budget speech is to present to parliament estimates of revenue and expenditure for the financial year. Thus, in the three documents there is no specific mandate for reporting on the impact of government programs on ecological and human conditions such as soil erosion, poverty and malnutrition reduction. This is a serious shortcoming since development should be sustainable and human-centered.
Every organization, be it a family, village or nation must have a leader. A leaderless society cannot hope to survive for long. Even animals and poultry have leaders. You can have a good or a bad leader. I will talk about the qualities of a good leader.
1. A leader must be a servant and not master of the people. The leader must have a vision or ideas about how to lead the people to greater heights in economic development, health and happiness. In crafting ideas, the leader should carefully look at the past because it impacts the present. In doing so the leader must ensure that the past is still relevant to the present. If not the past or old ideas should be repackaged to incorporate new developments. | 2019-02-18T05:55:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247484689.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20190218053920-20190218075920-00234.warc.gz | en | 0.975918 | 622 | {
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The staff team, pupils and governors and I would like to extend to you a very warm welcome to our school.
Our school was first opened in 1901 and retains much of the same external features and benefits on the inside from two large halls, spacious classrooms, a library, ICT Suite and Design and Technology Suite. We cater for pupils from 3 to 11 years of age and have two Learning Centre classes which support pupils with special learning needs from our own catchment area and around Newport. There are approximately 340+ children who attend the school.
Our vision for all members of our school community:
‘Hand in Hand we Inspire and Celebrate Success’.
We will achieve this by striving to work in partnership with the whole school community. We will provide a learning environment that will inspire everyone to achieve more. Everyone has talent, we aim to nurture these talents and provide children with the skills to improve and achieve their best. Collectively we will enhance the opportunities and experiences of our pupils and celebrate all successes.
Children come to school happy and excited. We create opportunities for children that ignite their imagination and create intrigue. Children are encouraged to ask question of themselves – What have I done well? What do I want to become better at? How can I become better? How can I inspire others?
We look forwards to opportunities of working together with you to ensure Crindau Primary School continues to achieve the best outcomes for all our learners.
Please do not hesitate to contact me at any time over, issues, concerns, questions or to celebrate things you would like to share with us.
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The IRTG Diversity together with the Centre canadien d’études allemandes et europénnes and the German Consulate General in Montréal presented, in collaboration with colleagues from the worldwide network of DAAD-sponsored Centers for German and European Studies, the exhibition Transformation EAST. Lives in Transition as a virtual tour followed by a panel discussion on Facebook Live on January 22, 2021 at 6pm MET (Strasbourg) 12pm EST (Montréal) 11am CET (Minnesota, Wisconsin) 9am PST (Victoria) This online event features a virtual visit of the exhibition guided by Laurence McFalls (Département de science politique, Université de Montréal) with commentary by
Alexander Reisenbichler Joint Initiative in German and European Studies (JIGES) Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto
Matthias Rothe (German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch) College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota
Jay Rowell Centre interdisciplinaire d’études et de recherches sur l’Allemagne (CIERA) CNRS, Université de Strasbourg
Beate Schmidtke (EUCA-Net: European Studies in Canada) Centre for Global Studies, University of Victoria
Marc Silberman (German, Nordic, and Slavic+) University of Wisconsin-Madison Transformation EAST.
Lives in Transition addresses the expectations, trust, and fears that East Germans associated with the reunification process through images and texts. It recalls the solidarity between Germans and their willingness to help each other as well as their tensions and misunderstandings. The exhibition tells of new beginnings and awakenings, as well as of the desire to reappraise the SED dictatorship. It also documents the despair that went hand in hand with economic collapse and the rise in unemployment, as well as the experiences of loss and fears that characterized the 1990s in former East Germany. Subjects explored include the simultaneous renovation and demolition of towns and cities in the east of Germany, the situation of women and families, and a youth culture torn between techno, punk, and right-wing extremism. Themes range from resentments to political violence, the question of who has the right to shape national identity, relations with Eastern neighbours, the development of the former East and its successes as well as new social divides that have arisen in recent years.
Conception and text: Stefan Wolle Published by the Federal Foundation for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in East Germany (Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung) and the Federal Government Commissioner for the New Federal States in cooperation with NDR and Statista.
Watch the recording on Facebook live https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=1003398636852620&ref=search.
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Like the RESF, the Imperial Griffin Space Navy regards the cruiser as the minimum sized hull for independent missions. Unlike the Royal Equestrian Space Forces, the IGSN doesn’t have a dedicated cruiser-sized marine transport hull, relying upon the carried numbers of IGSM troops aboard every Navy warship for ground operations and support of ground objectives. Ironically, a number of these ships have shown up in pirate hands, especially the lighter Gyrfalcon-class, with a black market for either the anti-ship missiles or replacing the missile launchers with Equestrian-style plasma torpedoes.
Also, like the RESF, the IGSN encountered “teething troubles” during the Horizon War and newer hulls are being built to fill the issues that were encountered. Older hulls are slowly being cycled out of the numbered fleets into the named fleets, and a few are showing up into “independent” service.
Gyrfalcon-class Light Cruiser
Massing 20,000 tons and 210 meters in length, the Gyrfalcon-class light cruiser is designed and built around filling most of the missions that light cruisers perform. Armed with two 8cm buster launchers in the bow, two 6cm buster launchers in the broadsides, and four launch cells for Viper-class anti-ship missiles, the Gyrfalcon is heavily armed for its weight. The major difficulties of the class is that when the Viper anti-ship missiles run out, the ship loses most of its long range punch against opponents. Armor and defense systems are of standard for the class of ship, as well as secondary systems for combat operations. The ship also carries a single company of Imperial Griffin Space Marines for ground operations.
The class saw service throughout the Horizon War, and many of the class’s flaws were brought to light during the war. A heavier light cruiser class, the Raven-class, began to be produced after the Horizon War, which addressed these concerns.
Raven-class Light Cruiser
Built after the end of the Horizon War, the Raven-class light cruiser masses at 23,000 tons and 210 meters in length. Armed more heavily than the Gyrfalcon-class, the ship carries two bow 8cm buster launchers, four 6cm buster launchers in the broadsides, and four launch cells for Viper-class anti-ship missiles. The major improvements of this class were the additional broadside buster launchers and slightly larger launcher capacity (four salvoes of six over three salvoes of six) for the Viper anti-ship missiles. While the class still has the issue of being less effective in combat once the missile cells are empty, the Raven is still a formidable foe in knife-fighting range with its buster launchers. Like the Gyrfalcon-class , the armor and defense systems are standard for the class. The ship carries a single company of Imperial Griffin Space Marines for ground operations and boarding missions.
As the older Gyrfalcon-class ships are bought by the military nobility and older hulls are retired, the Raven-class is replacing them in greater numbers. The Horizon War showed that there were never enough cruisers for the missions that were required, and the Griffin Moot is planning to be ready when they need these hulls.
Eagle-class Heavy Cruiser
At 26,000 tons and 220 meters long, the Eagle-class of heavy cruiser represents the platonic ideal of cruisers in the IGSN thoughts prior to the Horizon War. Armed with two bow 10cm buster launchers, six 6cm buster launchers in the broadsides, and four launch cells for Viper-class anti-ship missiles, the class is designed to win a cruiser duel by superior bow-to-bow firepower and longer engagement ranges for the 10cm buster launchers. The primary issue with this class of ship is that while it carries a fairly large number of missiles (the launch cells are built to handle six salvoes of six missiles each), once the missiles are gone the ship lacks a maneuver denial weapon against hostile ships. In addition, while the simple “slam” power of the 10cm buster launchers is significant, the advantages of two larger weapons over an array of smaller buster launchers wasn’t worth the mass and design penalties. The class mounts armor and defenses in proportion to the ship’s mass, and carries a reinforced company of Imperial Griffin Space Marines for ground operations.
The Eagle-class would begin to be phased out, to be replaced by the Talon-class heavy cruiser after the end of the Horizon War. The class is oddly popular with the military nobility, which likes the class for its heavy weapons fit.
Talon-class Heavy Cruiser
At 38,000 tons and 240 meters long, the Talon-class is the IGSN’s version of the RESF Big Macintosh class, and it fills the same mission role. Armed with four 8cm buster launchers in the bow, six 6 cm buster launchers in the broadsides, and six Viper-class anti-ship missile launch cells, the class is more balanced in terms of weapons than the older Eagle-class. Like the Eagle-class, the ship has difficulties when it runs out of missiles, but the larger number of launchers gives the ship more endurance. The class also mounts heavier point defense stations than other cruisers, which allows for engagement of seeking weapons at longer distances. Like the Eagle-class, the ship carries a reinforced IGSM company for ground operations.
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Jewelry and Watch – What’s It?
Reminiscence recall a few of them have Dual Algorithm for liberal and conservative diving; Many corporations invested their money into making extra digital watches with a similar known model that had a popularity for promoting nicely. These watches allowed them to promote related premium wanting watches at a much lower and non premium value.
Despite the presence of palms and numerals, analogue watches present a big variety in each designs and colours. Youngsters’s watches can also be designed to look very interesting on this approach, so that youngsters really stay up for carrying their first watch on their arm at a selected time. Like these for adults, these watches have all of the essential capabilities, moreover they have been designed to look colorful and appealing. In doing so, manufacturers of children’s watches do after all additionally address the wants of kids. They also produce special women’ watches, that are embellished with exterior designs in pastel colors or animal motifs or even motifs from motion pictures and promoting. In consequence, youngsters are a lot happier to be taught to learn the time than up to now. In the event that they haven’t already realized it in kindergarten, it is going to be time in the first grade at the newest, and at this point it is then price giving them a pleasant wrist watch.
This sort of band will permit you to get an ideal match.
Fossil watch is considered thrilling when it comes to technology as well as vogue and they are available in an array of designs in the market. Fossil watch is dominating the watch market since Nineteen Eighties and their primary objective is to combine outdated appears to be like with the newest technology. Watches made underneath this brand are thought of sturdy as they have a few years of expertise manufacturing watches. They’re one of many watches that can stand up to the day by day jerks and scratches that a watch has to go through. In case you are pursuing buying a watch that may be a combination of great looks, durability and the newest know-how, fossil watch could be your best option.
Apart from these apparent advantages, the Citizen Watch models can show time completely for more than thirty cities around the world together with cities utilizing the Coordinated Universal time (UTC). This goes for other things just like the calendar which may also be used within the thirty cities around the world.
The Bracelet watch is truly dazzling and glittering.
All that Glitters isn’t Precisely Gold: Above all else, keep in mind that designer watches and hugely expensive brands may not essentially contain the best supplies and construction. Relating to watch shopping on a finances, your finest bet is choosing high quality over title brands. Preserve a cool head and you will depart your shopping experience “armed” with a classy, precision timepiece.
Your beliefs are foundation builders. They frame your ideas and control your phrases. See Revelation 22:11-thirteen. Beliefs might be cultural and hereditary, generally impede our notion of God. The follow of rewarding folks for viewing business messages comes from the fact that technology and legislation (learn Can Spam Act and Do Not Call lists) have made it possible for us to keep away from getting exposed to undesirable promoting.
At each mile marker, the runner would press the lap button (or on a Timex this is the beginning/break up button) and the watch would file the time. The enchasing place and precision determine the brilliance of the diamond. You’ll be able to attach a fob from this chain to finish the Albert. | 2020-03-31T06:54:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585370500331.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20200331053639-20200331083639-00062.warc.gz | en | 0.957656 | 742 | {
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Extremus Rogue and Polaris out on their first patrol with their new handlers, at the Save Valley Conservancy, Zimbabwe.
A very proud day today for Extremus Dog Training Ltd and the dogs that we breed and train. Two of our dogs that we bred, raised and trained have now been successfully deployed to their chosen conservancy and have started their new life as Anti Poaching dogs looking after the parks wildlife. Honoured to have been a part of this super project. We have more dogs going over to Africa in the coming weeks.
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About Carini Realtors
Carini & Associates, Realtors, is a Female owned enterprise located in Holland, MI. Victoria Carini holds 100% stock ownership and is the president of the company. She is also a Native American, belonging to the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan.
Carini & Associates, Realtors was established in 1989. Victoria and her team of highly trained professional Real Estate Consultants work with the common purpose of making a difference in people’s lives and in delivering the highest level of service in the Real Estate industry today. The moto of Victoria and her Team is “Your Goals Are Our Goals.”
Carini & Associates, Realtors specialize in waterfront homes, cottages, and properties from the Indiana border to north of Traverse City. Victoria lives in Holland and believes it is the greatest place to live, work, and raise a family.
Victoria and her Team believe in the concept of consulting rather than selling; building a business based on referrals; establishing relationships that last; educating people on their Real Estate choices; and working together to fulfill the clients Real Estate needs.
To make it easier for people find the homes and properties they wanted, Victoria created her website www.carinirealtors.com where visitors will find information on over 20,000 homes and properties in West Michigan.
We are dedicated to building strong, lasting, lifelong relationships in the Lake Michigan region… one person at a time. We would love to give you a glimpse of what we are all about. Step into your new and exciting real estate venture with personal, trusted consultants — Carini & Associates, Realtors in Holland Michigan. | 2020-04-09T10:59:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585371833063.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20200409091317-20200409121817-00362.warc.gz | en | 0.939266 | 353 | {
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Earlier today, Miz Cyrus took to her Twitter to share:
I miss u every second of every day. twitter.com/MileyCyrus/sta…
— Miley Ray Cyrus (@MileyCyrus) January 15, 2013
Awww! This is sooo freakin' sad!
Death is definitely something that is NOT easy to deal with, so we're really hoping that the actress can pick her head up soon and get through this.
We don't like to see you down Miley!! Our hearts SRSLY go out to you!!
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Following the siege of Jerusalem, it is recorded by the Roman historian Tacitus that the Roman General Pompey entered into the Holy of Holies, the inner sanctuary of the Temple of God. Here’s what Tacitus records:
“As victor, he claimed the right to enter the Temple, and this incident gave rise to the common impression that it contained no representation of the deity – the sanctuary was empty, and the Holy of Holies untenanted.” Tacitus, Histories, Book 5:11-12
The Romans were astounded. Coming from a world that lived perpetually under the watchful eye of Mt. Olympus, a world of columns and pillars, temples and shrines, and statues and idols it was a staggering discovery that at the geographical center of Jewish religious experience to find nothing more than …
an empty room.
That’s because deep within the Jewish monotheistic innovation is a Creator God who cannot be explained, quantified, defined, or controlled. The Jews did not dare tend to the Holy of Holies, as if to try and manage or manipulate God. They didn’t even try to say the Name that God had given to Moses. Every time you read in your Bible the words “LORD,” in all caps, you are reading the alternate word that protected people from mispronouncing the Name. In fact, to create an image for God was among the most grievous sins for the people of Israel, as their history could readily attest. Any attempt to try and define God or picture God using the imagination of man always ends in making idols.
This is a God whose presence to Israel was a cloud of darkness with lightning coming from it.
This is the God who answers Moses’ ageless question “show me your glory,” by only letting him see the afterglow after he passes by for “no one can see my face and live.”
This is a God who speaks all at once with a Voice that sometimes rolls like thunder, and other times is like a whisper.
This is a God who is at the same time both relentless in pursuit of justice and tenderly generous in dispensing grace.
Zophar the Naamathite says to his friend Job “Can you fathom the mysteries of God? Can you probe the limits of the Almighty? They are higher than the heavens above–what can you do? They are deeper than the depths below — what can you know? Their measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea.”
Paul writes to Timothy about a God who “is alone immortal and lives in unapproachable light.” To the Romans he quotes Job and asks “Oh the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments and his paths beyond tracing out! Who can know the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?”
And yet deep within human nature is this desire to know the Unknowable that causes us to continue to create and build and plan and imagine ways to bring definition to the undefinable. This longing, A. W. Tozer says, “to know What cannot be known, to comprehend the Incomprehensible, to touch and taste the Unapproachable, arises from the image of God in the nature of man. Deep calleth unto deep, and though polluted and landlocked by the mighty disaster theologians call the Fall, the soul senses its origin and longs to return to its Source.”
Thomas Cahill asks it this way: “Can we open ourselves to the God who cannot be understood, who is beyond all our amulets and schemings, the God who rains on picnics, the God who allows human beings to be inhuman, who has sentenced us all to death? All the other gods are figments, sorry projections of human desires. Only this God is worth my life… For “there is no other.”
How can we satisfy this longing to know him who is unknown?
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School Library Journal - School Library JournalGr 4-6-American history presented in fresh packages. Text divided into short sections, numerous photographs, and generous use of white space combine to make these serious subjects inviting. Good discusses the conditions of segregation that led to one of the most significant Supreme Court decisions of the 20th century. She explains that with the help of the NAACP and its Legal Defense Fund lawyers, five separate lawsuits were combined to form the landmark case. Landau smoothly describes Carson's life and accomplishments. Photographs show this unique woman, her family, and the covers of some of her publications. Although simply written, the book highlights the scientist's special talents and her contributions to international environmental awareness and policy during her life and even after her death. Petersen makes a complex tangle of secret activities clear enough for students to understand, spelling out who did what and why as well as who knew what was going on, with evidence worthy of a detective thriller. The text points to the knowledge and involvement of the United States government's highest officials in one of the biggest scandals in American history even though only some participants were prosecuted. An oddity in the further reading: the section "Books and Videos" includes only three book listings. Overall, this is a straightforward treatment of the subject.-Ann G. Brouse, Steele Memorial Library, Elmira, NY Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
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BrightStart Higher Apprenticeship – Consulting – Technology
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Our Apprentices are here to shape their careers, as well as gain on-the-job experience. You’ll work right alongside your more experienced colleagues and be treated with the same respect from day one. But you’ll also get extra time and support to help you gain your professional qualifications.
Your experience here will leave you with skills you’ll rely on throughout your entire career, wherever you decide to take them. As part of the BrightStart community we offer the chance to start a career with a firm of problem solvers – the best minds in the industry – with guidance from inspirational and supportive senior managers and every opportunity to grow and progress. From the start you will be hired as a permanent member of staff – often described as the firm’s greatest assets.
You’ll immerse yourself in your client’s business and establish meaningful relationships from day one. From headline-making restructuring work to price-sensitive business sales, you will work on a huge variety of projects and for all kinds of clients. What connects them is their trust that we’ll provide the sharpest solutions.
Today, business is technology. Which is why our tech experts work across every area of ours. We have a dedicated team in each of our service areas, who focus purely on innovating for better business. Think leading edge. Whether it’s the technical aspects, the business and design or the commercial opportunities of technology that excite you, your expertise is in demand.
From our strategists to our developers to our digital transformation experts, we’re here to solve our clients’ most critical technology challenges. To advise, protect, create, investigate, transform and deliver. In other words: we help make business possible.
There are six areas of Technology Consulting in which you can join as a BrightStart apprentice:
Analytics and Information Management (AIM): is the core of our Consulting Analytics capability, helping derive value from the information available in their organisations to measure performance, drive profitability and meet regulatory requirements. You will develop the vital technical skills which can include (though is not limited to) coding, algorithm development, information architecture design, advanced statistical analysis, and systems configuration.
· Advisory roles generally go down the Consulting Pathway: directly supporting clients across multiple industries and roles, such as developing market-leading analytics solutions and defining architectures, processes and tools to improve the way clients manage their information. This role will test and develop interpersonal skills and provide the Analyst with experience of the end-to-end process of a technology project, from definition, through development and on to User Acceptance Testing.
· Technical roles generally go down three pathways:
o Consulting Pathway: focusing on designing, developing and delivering intelligent solutions to turn our client’s data into visual displays and actionable insights that support their decision making and add value to the business.
o Enterprise Performance Management Solutions Pathway: focusing on delivering solutions that allow our clients to measure and drive business performance, especially financial, using platforms such as Oracle, SAP and IBM.
o Information Management Solutions Pathway: focusing on designing, developing and delivering systems that support the collection, integration and quality of data across the enterprise.
Deloitte Digital: is an innovative leader in online and mobile strategy, design and development, offering world-class knowledge and resources from the leading global business and technology consultancy. Our focus is on the areas of digital strategy, mobile, social/web, content management and managed services, underpinned by digital tech architecture, application implementation and development expertise. We approach our work with great energy and passion as we align our client’s business aspirations to the goals of the end user.
Enterprise Applications: you will work with the biggest clients to help them develop their strategic vision for their mission critical apps that run their day to day business operations. Implement the latest cutting edge technologies that are changing the way we work, undoubtedly for the better. You will be part of a team that continues to challenge itself to provide innovative solutions for our clients including helping them to move to new cloud technology and developing new ways for our clients to engage with their customers.
FS-Applications: we support our clients’ operations by translating their strategic visions and business requirements into effective processes and supporting applications that integrate across the organisation. You will get to deliver a variety of engagements ranging from strategic design, advisory and business readiness work, to business application implementation. All of this leverages our unique skill sets within Technology that combine industry knowledge, package understanding and implementation expertise.
Systems Integration: you will help clients develop, deliver and test complex technology programmes, from new Digital platforms or enterprise applications through to complete IT infrastructure transformations. You will also have an opportunity to work with all areas of Deloitte Consulting to deliver outstanding programmes that set Deloitte apart in the System Integration and Technical Programme Management markets.
Technology Strategy & Architecture: our people sit at the heart of many of the most exciting technology projects in the UK and abroad. We advise CIOs on their IT strategy and how to maximise the value, efficiency and effectiveness of their IT environment and IT function in delivering the needs of its business customers. Providing deep industry insight, you will work with clients to bridge business and technology in defining strategy and shaping and delivering transformational change programmes.
Your professional experience
· Use your curiosity, imagination, critical thinking and judgement to analyse complex problems, work out what’s important and deliver bespoke solutions.
· ‘Access all areas’ of your client’s business to understand its inner workings, helping you develop your business acumen, commercial skills and industry knowledge, as well as developing far reaching and often senior relationships.
· Take on more intellectually challenging work, while technology takes care of the repetitive manual tasks. We’re using automation and cognitive technology to free up our people for more analytical work, and to provide a higher quality audit.
· Take responsibility very early in your career – quickly supervising, coaching and mentoring your own teams.
· Build strong relationships with clients and colleagues, working collaboratively in like-minded teams.
· Experience different cultures and local business practices, working with colleagues and clients around the world. As well as enjoying opportunities for national and international travel.
· Get involved outside your day job, in the many corporate responsibility and social activities on offer at Deloitte.
· Aiding innovation through research and application of solutions for clients
· Supporting resolution of business problems, or helping clients to grow their business by using technology
· Supporting reviews of current client projects and identifying issues and areas of opportunity
· Gathering requirements for technical specifications or design
· Learning and applying core project management skills to work for our clients
· Working closely with colleagues and clients to identify improvements or risks for the project
One of our firm-wide priorities is to deliver a globally uniform level of quality in core services so that our clients experience a consistent, exceptional Deloitte. To achieve this, global standards have been developed that define the most critical capabilities required by client service professionals. Joining Deloitte, within the business area you chose, you will develop professional qualifications and the following capabilities.
· Digital Fluency: Ability to embrace, evaluate and pioneer digital concepts and languages
· Design Thinking: Ability to integrate customer needs, technical possibilities and business requirements to solve complex problems
· Technical Domain Expertise: Ability to learn expertise in a technical domain to enable client’s strategic agenda
· Analyses the External Environment: Ability to analyse trends and technologies and apply insights to assess the impact and value on the business
· Delivery Excellence: Ability to team with others to produce a high quality work product to ensure a superior client experience
· Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving: Ability to collect, assimilate and analyse relevant data and use standard processes and tools to help surface and support solutions
· Financial Acumen: Ability to apply basic financial concepts to client and Deloitte business models
· Executive Presence: Ability to maintain a positive, professional attitude and adapt to changing priorities to instil confidence in team
· Logical Structuring: Ability to use and apply frameworks to organize concepts, identify gaps, and communicate ideas clearly
· Global Mind-set: Ability to value and consider the diverse perspectives and backgrounds of colleagues and clients
· Business-Technology Acumen: Ability to apply technology fundamentals to client situations
· Access the Organization: Ability to find and leverage a diverse set of resources and share findings with others
Our Purpose & Strategy
To make an impact that matters for our clients, our people and society – defines who we are and what we stand for. Our purpose provides the foundation for our strategy and our aspiration to be the undisputed leader in professional services: this is not about size, it’s about being the first choice. The first choice for the largest and most influential clients, and the first choice for the best talent.
What do we do?
Deloitte offers global integrated professional services that include Audit & Assurance, Consulting, Financial Advisory, Risk Advisory and Tax Consulting. Our approach combines intellectual leadership, industrial expertise, insight, consulting & problem solving capabilities whatever the role, technology revolutions and innovation from multiple disciplines to help our clients excel anywhere in the world.
Beyond the UK: North West Europe within a Global firm
UK and Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands and the Nordics (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) have combined to create a new Deloitte North West Europe firm on 1 June 2017. This is to support our aspiration to be the undisputed leader in professional services and to increase our global influence and lead in EMEA.
A broader geographical shape will create new career development opportunities, helping us develop the very best talent across the region and the world.
What do we value?
At Deloitte we foster a collaborative culture where talented individuals can produce their best work. We value innovative thinking, diverse insights and a genuinely distinctive level of customer service. We value difference, with respect at the heart of our inclusive culture, and we support agile working arrangements. Hear from some of our people already working at Deloitte in agile ways. We are proud to have received a Best for All Stages of Motherhood special award in 2016 as a Top Employer for Working Families.
Being a Leader at Deloitte
Cultural fit and purpose-led leadership is crucial for Deloitte. Our leaders always set the example and inspire their colleagues. They make quality time for people and take an interest in them. They know what matters to people – both inside and outside work – and value them as individuals; always finding opportunities to develop them while showing respect and appreciation.
We expect colleagues at all levels to embrace and live our purpose and our leadership culture by challenging themselves to identify issues that are most important for our clients, our people, and for society and make an impact that matters. We know leadership comes in all shapes and sizes, but we require five leadership imperatives from all of our people:
· We live our purpose: we act as a role model, embracing and living our purpose and values, and recognising others for the impact they make
· We develop talent: we develop high-performing people and teams through challenging and meaningful opportunities
· We drive performance: we deliver exceptional client service; maximise results and drive high performance from people while fostering collaboration across businesses and borders
· We believe positive influence can make an impact that matters: we influence clients, teams, and individuals positively, leading by example and establishing confident relationships with increasingly senior people
· We move, together, towards a strategic direction: we understand key objectives for clients and Deloitte, aligning people to objectives and setting priorities and direction
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Deloitte LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales with registered number OC303675 and registered office at 2 New Street Square, London, EC4A 3BZ. Deloitte LLP is the United Kingdom affiliate of Deloitte NWE LLP, a member firm of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, a UK private company limited by guarantee (“DTTL”), its network of member firms, and their related entities. DTTL and each of its member firms are legally separate and independent entities.
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In 1766, during the colonial protests of the Stamp Act, some residents of eastern North Carolina, including many colonial leaders, signed a pledge to refuse to pay the tax. Their pledge was published in Wilmington's newspaper the North-Carolina Gazette on February 26, 1766. Read the primary source transcription below. It includes annotations with historical commentary.
We the The people signing this pledge subscribed to it in the way someone "subscribes" to a belief -- that is, they agreed to follow it., free and A natural born citizen of a country is someone who was born a citizen of that country, so the signers are saying that they are not immigrants from other countries but were born subjects of the British Empire. subjects of George the third, Why was it important to say that George III was the "true and lawful" king? of Great Britain and all its Dependencies (whom God preserve) whose sacred person, crown and dignity, we are ready and willing, at the expense of our lives and fortunes to defend, being fully convinced of the oppressive and arbitrary tendency of a Late here means recent. Act of Parliament, imposing Stamp duties on the inhabitants of this Province, and fundamentally subversive of the English people and colonists in the eighteenth century used liberties much the way we use rights today -- to refer to a variety of things that by law and tradition they were able to do. Charters are fundamental laws, similar to a constitution. The word might refer to charters of colonies, but North Carolina's charter had long ago been revoked -- it was a royal colony. Since he says "the charters of North America" the author of this pledge may be referring to the charters of other colonies, such as Massachusetts. He may also be referring to important laws and precedents in North Carolina that guaranteed citizens the right to a voice in their government. of North America; truly sensible of the inestimable blessings of The English (or British) Constitution was, and is, a collection of fundamental laws through the centuries, not a single founding document like the Constitution of the United States that lays out all of the functions and powers of a government. The two most important laws in the English "constitution" were the Magna Carta (or "great charter") of 1215 and the Bill of Rights of 1689. Both guaranteed certain rights to British subjects, including the right to a say in their government., detesting Rebellion, yet preferring death to It was common in the eighteenth century for English people to refer to anyone who did not share their rights and liberties as a slave. Why might American colonists have used this word so frequently in their protests against acts of Parliament?, Do, with all loyalty to our most gracious Sovereign, with all deference to the just Laws of our Country, and with a proper and necessary regard to ourselves and Posterity means future generations. By mentioning posterity, the signers are saying that they feel responsible to their children and their children's children, and that they are willing to fight and sacrifice for them., hereby mutually and Plight here means pledge. By pledging their honor, they were saying that if they broke their pledge, they would lose honor, or their reputation as men., that we will at any risque whatever, and whenever called upon, unite, and truly and faithfully assist each other, to the best of our Power, in preventing entirely the operation of the Stamp Act.
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I have MARVELOUS news! I will be picking Angel this Sunday, a week early! I am so happy, I am about to come out of my skin! I will be in the area where her father lives this weekend, and asked him if I could take her home with me in exchange for an extra week in August. He agreed! For those of you who do not know Angel has been with her Father for the summer. It was in our court ruling that he get her for June and July with no visitation for me in between. Many people have asked how a judge could keep a 15 month old away from her Mother for that long. I cannot post what I think the reason is but it doesn’t matter it is what it is.
As for any parent, this time apart from my sweet baby has been very difficult for me. Fortunately, I have and AMAZING support system. I want to thank you all for your concern, prayers, uplifting messages, and words of encouragement. I have cards on my refrigerator from friends that have been praying for us during this time. I have to thank my Mom, sister, and friends for always listening to me when I was sad and felt like I was going to lose it. I especially want to thank my best friend Sophia who did everything short of stand on her head to make me laugh during my darkest hour. I also want to thank Angel’s father for agreeing to let me have her early. I’m not sure I could have stood another week with her absent. Since his agreement the laugh lines around my eyes are so deep no amount of Botox could fix them. (Maybe I should make a call about that ;). I have not stopped smiling and won’t stop.
The hardest part is going to be waiting, but I have been waiting for 41 days so what’s a few more. Luckily I have a busy schedule to keep me occupied. Sunday will be the longest day. I am like a child as Christmas approaches making large red X’s on my calendar counting down the days, and the days just got fewer. I could learn that I have won the lotto and couldn’t be happier than I am about seeing my precious Angel. My next post will be a story of our reunion so please stay tuned! | 2013-05-21T12:40:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699977678/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102617-00069-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987931 | 475 | {
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I’ve helped you before with a similar problem. Here are my questions:
- Are you running medm on the same computer as the IOC, or on a different computer?
- Is the iptables firewall turned off on both machines?
- In medm right click on the screen, select “PV Info” and left click on the white widget. It will tell you the name of the EPICS PV it is looking for.
- In the IOC type “dbl”. That will list the names of the records in that IOC. Make sure the name agrees with the one in medm.
- You previously had a problem with lots of medm messages “Message: Identical process variable names on multiple servers”
I told you:
That is because your computer must have 2 network cards. You need to define the following environment variables.
You need to replace 92.xxx.xxx.255 with the broadcast address of that network.
If medm and the IOC are running on the same machine, and you don't need to access any other EPICS PVs on the network for now, then you can use:
Did you follow my suggestions? What are those environment variables on both the IOC computer and the medm computer?
From: firstname.lastname@example.org [mailto:email@example.com]
On Behalf Of Yasemin Barutçu
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 1:14 AM
Subject: About MEDM
O.S. : Opensuse
Epics base version : 22.214.171.124
Medm version : 3.1.7
I started to learn MEDM and I just draw something on the screen.
My questions are;
1. White screen displayed instead of the monitor objects when using execute mode. As you can see below image:
2. I can't change the PV Limits of the monitor objects. But on terminal I don't get any error about it. Just bip sound come to me. | 2019-05-19T06:18:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232254253.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20190519061520-20190519083520-00466.warc.gz | en | 0.854326 | 440 | {
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Dear TAOTS Families,
We hope that you are enjoying your weekend !
We had a great week back from winter break celebrating Dr. Seuss’ Birthday in our PJ’s!
A Huge Thank You to our Amazing Parent & Staff! Without all of you , these events would not be possible!
Here are your Weekly Announcement & Important Reminders from your PC for the Week 3/5/17:
- Monday, March 6th , 2017-
- K122 & K126 has a trip to Vesuvio’s Pizza.
- Tuesday, March 7th , 2017 –
- Teacher Led Parent Workshops for Grade 3: Math – Test prep, Grade 4: Test taking skills/strategies, Grade 5: Math/ELA , & Art with Ms. Costanzo.
- Brooklyn Engineering for Kids, Grades K-2, 2:30pm – 3:30pm. The Last Class is on Tuesday, March 21st , 2017.
- Please be sure that you have registered for your child’s NYCSA – NYC Schools Account with Ms. Appelbaum. The NYCSA is an electronic way for you to access your child’s past and present grades, state assessments, absences, and lateness. If you have not done so already, please contact Ms. Appelbaum. I will have a table set up in front of the Main Office located on the 2nd Floor during Parent teacher Conferences on Thursday, March 9th , 2017 for open registration.
- Wednesday, March 8th , 2017-
- K139 has a trip to Vesuvio’s Pizza.
- Report Card Distribution & Parent Survey Distribution. Please be sure to complete your Parent Survey and return to Ms. Appelbaum on Thursday, March 9th, 2017 to get entered into a raffle to a Gift Certificate to a local restaurant. The 1st Class to return ALL their surveys will win a Pizza Party! Most Importantly , It’s Your School, It’s Your Voice!
- Federation After School for All Grades , 2:20pm – 4:30pm.
- Thursday, March 9th , 2017-
- ½ Day Dismissal at 11:20am Promptly.
- Parent Teacher Conferences 12:20pm – 2:20pm & 4:30pm – 7:30pm.
- Project Smarts After School is Cancelled due to Parent Teacher Conferences.
- Don’t forget to complete & return your Parent Survey. Come to the 2nd Floor to submit your raffle.
- Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Don’t forget to buy your tickets for the “TAOTS In Wonderland” Gala! Our PTO will have a table set up in the Main Lobby selling Tickets & Raffles to the Gala!
- Register for your child’s NYC Schools Account.
- “ Once Upon A Cure”- Visit Ms. DeVivo for the “Relay for Life”. We will have a table on the 2nd Floor to purchase “stars” to support the “Relay for Life”. We will be participating in the “Relay for Life” on Saturday, June 17th , 2017. All families are encouraged to join us! More information about the Relay will being coming home soon…
- Friday, March 10th , 2017 –
- http://nycparentleaders.org/ Now is your chance to impact how New York City public schools work for your children and all children in your community. Your voice matters. Run for an Education Council seat and help shape the policies and priorities of your school district or even the city. The only experience you need is to be a parent of a New York City public school student. Parents can text “RUN2017” to 877–877 to receive additional information on the 2017 Citywide and Community Education Council elections.
- Kindly be sure when you shop on Amazon to use this link https://www.amazon.com/?tag=pot00-20 . TAOTS will get school rewards!
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The Camplify team was successful in making the Jumpstart 2015 intake.
Justin Hales CEO of Campilfy came up with the idea based on his experiences on family holidays as a child.
“My family and I used to go caravaning with my extended family every holidays. On a return trip we were ran off the road and decided to sell our caravan. We never had that type of holiday again. In October my wife asked me to see about hiring a caravan for the Christmas holidays but I couldn’t find any out there. I thought that with all the caravans sitting in people’s front yards, surely I can come up with a solution that solves both problems,” Hales said.
Camplify allows owners to list their caravans or other recreational vehicles for hire. Just like Airbnb, owners can then chat with potential users and pick which they’re comfortable lending their vehicle to. The platform, which charges a booking fee, estimates that a caravan would be hired for an average of 6 weeks per year, giving owners a spare $3500.
“When we started all we had was an idea. Over the past three months Slingshot has assisted us in validating that idea and developing a full business around it,” Hales said.
“The biggest challenge is educating the market in this type of disruptive business. Once people understand the idea they love it.”
While a number of owners may be wary of handing over something as expensive as a caravan or RV to a stranger for weeks at a time, many others would surely jump at the chance to make some extra cash for something that goes unused for most of the year. This, and encouraging users to make connections and share tips and advice on their holidays, can help Camplify build a devoted community.
The NRMA connection will also help – with the Jumpstart program promising its startups access to the NRMA’s member base if the product fits, Hales believes Camplify is well-positioned to make the most of the connection.
“The NRMA and caravaning go together like footy and a meat pie. We are the perfect new business to introduce to NRMA members and offer them an additional service,” he said.
Since the program Camplify has made strong progress with a strong capital raising under their belt the Camplify team is continuing is strong test and learn ethic. The NRMA relationship has continued to be strong with mutual benefit for both parties. Camplify has now built a strong base in Australia and are looking to ramp up global expansion soon
Courtesy of Startupdaily.net
“Camplify started as an idea and we knew we had to find the right people to work with. Slingshot for us was critical because they connected us with the right people from day one.
The program put us in contact with a corporate that we could work with. Partnering with a corporate is one way to make sure that you have a success right off the bat.
Without Slingshot there would be no Camplify”
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Days after revealing the Monster 1200 R, Ducati has unveiled its latest steed: the 2016 Ducati Diavel Carbon. Muscular and with a strong presence, the Diavel dominates the road while remaining as lightweight and agile as other Ducati models.
The latest generation Testastretta 11° Dual Spark engine with ABS, Ducati Traction Control, Ducati Riding Modes and typical Ducati agility guarantee an exciting but safe riding experience. Its 162 hp and weight of just 205 kg (452 lb.), together with its exclusive design, make the Diavel a comfortable and sporty lifestyle motorcycle.
The new Asphalt Grey colour that characterises this new 2016 version elegantly balances with the visible carbon, the red stripes and the Dark Chrome paintwork on the frame. The exclusive forged wheels with exposed machined finish, enhance the muscular design of the bike. Other new features on the 2016 version of the Diavel Carbon include the exhaust manifolds with Zircotec ceramic coating. This type of coating renders the exhaust system more sophisticated and technological; the system is also equipped with brushed-effect stainless steel silencer covers. In addition, the bike boasts a totally redesigned seat with new and exclusive trim.
In addition to the new Carbon version, the Diavel will also be available in the total black Dark Stealth version, with matt black tank and black frame and wheels.
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End of Product Lifecycle. Active development and support for MySQL Database Server versions 3.23, 4.0, and 4.1 has ended. For details, see http://www.mysql.com/about/legal/lifecycle/#calendar. Please consider upgrading to a recent version. Further updates to the content of this manual will be minimal. All formats of this manual will continue to be available until 31 Dec 2010.
Fixed a bug, that enabled a specially crafted packet to crash mysqld. (CVE-2002-1373)
Fixed a rare crash (double
free'd pointer) when altering a temporary table.
Fixed buffer overrun in
libmysqlclient library that permitted a malicious MySQL server to crash the client application. (CVE-2002-1376)
Fixed security-related bug in
mysql_change_user() handling. All users are strongly recommended to upgrade to the version 3.23.54. (CVE-2002-1374, CVE-2002-1375)
Fixed bug that prevented
--chroot command-line option of mysqld from working.
Fixed bug that made
OPTIMIZE TABLE to corrupt the table under some rare circumstances.
Fixed mysqlcheck so it can deal with table names containing dashes.
Fixed shutdown problem on Mac OS X.
Fixed bug with comparing an indexed
NULL field with
Fixed bug that caused
IGNORE INDEX and
USE INDEX sometimes to be ignored.
Fixed rare core dump problem in complicated
GROUP BY queries that didn't return any result.
Fixed a bug where
MATCH ... AGAINST () >=0 was treated as if it was
Fixed core dump in
SHOW PROCESSLIST when running with an active slave (unlikely timing bug).
Make it possible to use multiple MySQL servers on Windows (code backported from 4.0.2).
One can create
MERGE tables now.
--core-file works on Linux (at least on kernel 2.4.18).
Fixed a problem with
Fixed reference to freed memory when doing complicated
GROUP BY ... ORDER BY queries. Symptom was that mysqld died in function
Allocate heap rows in smaller blocks to get better memory usage.
Fixed memory allocation bug when storing
BLOB values in internal temporary tables used for some (unlikely)
GROUP BY queries.
Fixed a bug in key optimizing handling where the expression
WHERE was calculated as true for
Fixed core dump bug when doing
LEFT JOIN ... WHERE .
MyISAM crash when using dynamic-row tables with huge numbers of packed fields.
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Lansing police detectives are handing their report on the investigation into a toddler's death over to the Ingham County prosecutor on Thursday. It will be up to Prosecuting Attorney Stuart Dunnings to decide if there is enough evidence to issue arrest warrants.
Two-year-old Brandon Kemp died April 30 after being taken to a local hospital. Police immediately called it suspicious, but haven't released what lead to the toddler's death.
The child was living his mother and her boyfriend in a Lansing apartment.
Lansing Police Information Officer Robert Merritt says the prosecutor could announce his decision as early as next week.
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REMKO is a Europe-wide operating company in the field of heating and air conditioning technology. Our high-performance product range includes hot air heating systems, dehumidifiers, air conditioning systems and room air conditioners as well as future-oriented heat pumps. Since 1976, as a medium-sized company, we have grown consistently by meeting the requirements of our customers. Many years of experience, innovative product development and reliable service are our strengths when it comes to needs-based solutions around the field of heating - air conditioning - dehumidification.
Our quality claim
Our products are not based on existing solutions, but on our own development and implementation of technical concepts. The high quality standards of our products have been the basis of REMKO's success for more than 40 years. In cooperation with recognized testing institutes, all REMKO products are tested according to the latest European standards on our in-house test bench. Certificates confirm the sustainable quality assurance.
With our CheckServ offer and a well-developed network of qualified specialist partners, we guarantee competent advice and reliable support. From planning to installation and subsequent maintenance, we are always available to our customers as a reliable contact partner. Should any malfunction occur, our emergency service team will be happy to help.
Spare parts service
In addition to accessories, REMKO offers spare parts for all its products which the customer can conveniently order online. The search function can also find replacement parts for older models. Naturally, the fastest possible delivery is a service at REMKO. | 2019-07-22T08:37:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195527828.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20190722072309-20190722094309-00018.warc.gz | en | 0.940079 | 329 | {
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One of my colleagues told me that when she was living in Singapore and recently engaged she and her fiance decided to move to the UK.
She liked her job but went to resign given that she would be moving away. Her boss was a bit shocked and asked her if she would consider putting in for a transfer instead. She had not really thought about it before but she put in a request, which was accepted. After many years, she is still with the same company today.
In my own case, I also moved from the US to the UK for a relationship. While the relationship did not work out, it was good for my career. I’ve even become a British citizenship. Lots of people dream of living in another country even just for a little while,
but the realities of relocation can be difficult at times. You might need to learn a new language or start your career from scratch. It just might be worth it though. You’ll never know until you pack up and go.
Find out about visa requirements
If you want to move somewhere new, it is important to think about the legal requirements to get there. Find out what you would need to do. Whether you move through work, or on your own, knowing the law will help you a lot.
Can your work sponsor you?
If you work for a multinational organisation you might be able to apply for a work transfer. There are also some organisations, such as universities or government bodies for example, where there are exchange opportunities. Take one to two hours to research programmes.
Consider your education
Do you want to go back to school to improve your qualifications? Studying abroad is not just for young people. This could be a good time to get your MA or MBA in a new country. Just ensure that the degree you get is valid and recognised back at home.
Time for a sabbatical
Many companies offer the opportunity to take a sabbatical once you have reached a certain point in your career. This is time for you to enjoy time away and do something different. You can probably find details in your employee handbook, so grab a snack and start reading the fine print.
There are lots of ideas out there to get you where you want to go. It won’t happen overnight but by checking with work and looking into basic immigration requirements, you’ll be on your way.
About the author
Joy Adams is a blogger and one of WATCs 2015 Rising Stars. She is a British-American businesswoman who has worked in both the public and private sectors in the US and UK. Joy currently serves on the Advisory Board for Vital Voices Europe, an organization dedicated to supporting and developing women leaders. She also writes a lifestyle blog for budding philanthropists and art collectors at Luxeher.com.
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Hey!!! My name is Arianna. I am a 14 year old and I love horseback-riding! My drawing talents are horses and dragons. I live on a 15 acre farm, w/ 14 animals(6 of them being horses =D!!!)I got my drawing talent from my sister, she is 23 and is in college. I started out drawing block-like horses, then gradually moved into more detail. I only began drawing dragons at the beginning of 2008 , maybe February. I'm not even sure why I started to draw them, I just drew a dragon one day, and decided I liked it. :) Important Date:Feb. 21! Horse Bowl!Random Things:Favorite Horse BreedsAppaloosaAmerican Quarter HorseThoroughbredMustangPaintLipizzanerFriesianetc., etc.Current BookSeabiscuit by Next Book by TipsLook at the clouds and use their formations to think of ideas for your next piece of art. Converse Rule! ;) Oh yeah!
Photography, reading, HORSEBACK RIDING, drawing, archery. I have a phobia of clowns and caterpillars!!! They creep me out!!!!
Lord of the Rings Jockeys Eragon Dragonheart Narnia The Legend Pirates of the Carribean LOST NCIS Moonlight Buffy the Vampire Slayer The Mentalist (and a whole bunch of horse movies!!!!!) etc.
Eragon/Eldest/Brisingr(christopher paolini), The Sight, Fell(David Clement-Davies), Warriors series(Erin Hunter), Twilight(Stephenie Meyer), Phantom Stallion series(Terri Farley), Ranger's Apprentice(John Flanagan), Horse Angel series(Angela Dorsey), The Lord of the Rings(J.R.R. Tolkien), Black Stallion series(Walter Farley)
Wild Horses(Natasha Bedingfield), Fallen Horses(Smashmouth), songs from Spirit: Stallion of the Cimmaron(Bryan Adams), Welcome Home(Coheed and Cambria), Miss Murder & Love Like Winter(AFI), Dirty Little Secret & Move Along(The All-American Rejects), Sugar Were Goin Down & Thanks for the Memories(Fall out boy), Phantom of the Opera(Iron Maiden), All the Memories(the Classic Crime), Flyleaf, Paramore, The Cure, David Bowie, The Ramones(gotta love em), Relient K, The Killers and many, many more. | 2014-11-27T14:32:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-49/segments/1416931008720.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20141125155648-00004-ip-10-235-23-156.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.803718 | 516 | {
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July 19 (Bloomberg) -- The downing of a Malaysia Air jetliner has transformed Ukraine’s worst crisis in more than two decades of independence into a “world-wide problem,” Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said.
“This is not a war between just Ukraine and Russia,” Yatsenyuk said late yesterday in an interview on Bloomberg Television. “This is a crime against humanity. We all have to realize that we have to stop this mess. After the tragedy, this is not a local conflict.”
Yatsenyuk, who took over as premier after a popular uprising ousted former President Viktor Yanukovych in February, said Russia must “withdraw agents” from Ukraine, condemn “terrorists” and restore control over the two nation’s common border to win a cease-fire after months of separatist violence.
The missile that downed flight MH17 on July 17, killing all 298 people on board, came from an area held by pro-Russian insurgents, President Barack Obama said yesterday. The fighters who’ve taken over swathes of Ukraine’s easternmost regions are battling government troops in a conflict that’s sparked tensions between Russia, the U.S and Europe not seen since the Cold War.
As of 7 a.m. today, 186 bodies were found, Ukrainian Defense Ministry spokesman Andriy Lysenko told journalists today.
Ukraine says Russia is supplying the rebels with weapons and equipment, accusations the Kremlin denies. Ukraine also blames the separatists for firing the missile at the Malaysian airliner, while Russia says it came from Ukraine’s army.
Separatists obtained “at least” three so-called Buk missile systems, said Vitaliy Nayda, an official at Ukraine’s state security service. The mobilized weapons launchers were transported back to Russia on July 18, Nayda said. The launcher that fired the rocket at the plane was operated by personnel with special training from Russia, he said.
“Terrorists, aided by Russia, are concealing evidence from the crash site,” Ukraine’s government said today in a statement on its website. “Terrorists removed 38 of the dead from the crash to Donetsk, where experts with clear Russian language said they would do autopsy themselves.”
Separatists did not provide full access to the site for OSCE inspectors.
“There is a lot of security here, with many heavily armed people,” OSCE spokesman Michael Bociurkiw said in a phone briefing from the site near Torez, about 30 kilometers (19 miles) from the Russian border. “We are being carefully watched.”
While Yatsenyuk praised U.S. efforts to sanction Russian companies and individuals and said more measures may be needed to stem Russia’s role in the crisis, he said Ukraine is open to international help in resolving the conflict.
“First we need to de-escalate the situation and to make real steps,” he said. “It is fair to say it is high time for Russia to stop support the terrorists.”
The plane was shot down hours after the U.S. and the European Union imposed further sanctions on Russia. The EU today published its legal decision on sanctions, which allows it to announce list of targeted entities by end-July.
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January 25, 2009
I don’t know what any of these things are, but they sound wonderful:
1) Pretty sauce;
2) Honey Jolly Balls;
3) Lollipop juice.
Together, I think that they’d make an awesome meal. Hold the meatballs, though.
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October 9, 2013, New York – Prisoners on California and Louisiana’s death row are being held in conditions that amount to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or torture under international law, according to a new report by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH).
Representatives from CCR and FIDH traveled to both states this spring to document living conditions on death row and interview prisoners, people who have been exonerated, advocates and legal counsel in capital cases. In both states, they found condemned prisoners were often being held in solitary confinement for decades, a practice that leads to severe psychological and physical harm. CCR and FIDH also noted stark racial and geographic disparities in death penalty charging and sentencing rates in both states, as well as a significant overrepresentation of minorities on death row. In California, the ratio of African Americans on death row is nearly six times their percentage in the population at large, and in Louisiana, the percentage of African Americans is double their representation in the population.
“The death penalty constitutes an inherent violation of the most fundamental of all human rights: the right to live,” said Vincent Warren, Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, who led the mission in Louisiana. “Not only are death row prisoners being denied this fundamental right in a process known to be rife with errors and discrimination, but in California and Louisiana, they are also being held, sometimes for decades on end, in conditions that clearly violate the United Nations Convention Against Torture, to which the United States is a party.”
In Louisiana’s Angola prison, the report describes how death row inmates remain in their cells for 23 hours each day without proper ventilation, even when the heat index inside the prison exceeds 110 degrees. Death row prisoners are not allowed to participate in recreational or rehabilitative programming. On the country’s most populous death row at San Quentin State Prison in California, the average length of time prisoners spend waiting for attorneys to be assigned and for courts to adjudicate their post-conviction claims is 17 and a half years. More death row inmates have committed suicide than have been executed by the state, and more than half of the 741 death row prisoners are currently without representation. And in both states, prisoners are often denied adequate medical and mental health care.
“Louisiana and California should urgently revise their policy and abolish the death penalty.” said Florence Bellivier, FIDH Representative on Death Penalty and President of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, who led the mission in California “In 2012, 21 countries carried out executions, including the United States. By abolishing capital punishment, the US would join agrowing national and worldwide movement. It's about the enhancement of human dignity and the progressive development of human rights.”
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Aug. 02--Tommy & The High Pilots to return on Aug. 8
Tommy & The High Pilots will perform at the First Ward House at 9:30 p.m. Aug. 8. This show will mark the band's second performance in St. Joseph this year.
The four-piece from Santa Barbara, Calif., has accomplished quite a bit since 2009, playing multiple official showcases at the SXSW Music Festival and packing clubs and theaters across the country. The band has signed to Redbird Records -- the up-and-coming home to several alternative rock acts, including Ludo -- and has even scored a couple of music videos on MTV.
In March, Tommy & The High Pilots -- led by frontman Tommy Cantillon -- performed a set of its own original songs before launching into a segment of covers by Tom Petty, Bruce Springsteen, Talking Heads, The Beatles and more. It was a performance that St. Joe Live's own Shea Conner described as "the most entertaining live show I've ever seen in this town."
For more information about the event, call the First Ward House at 273-0039.
Parties on the Parkway continues on Thursday
The Parties on the Parkway series will conclude on Aug. 8, with a set of classic pop and oldies by local band Friends and Family. The event will be held on The Parkway across from Corby Pond from 5 to 8 p.m. The rain date is Aug. 15.
Food and beverages will be available for purchase. Attendees are asked to bring lawn chairs or blankets. No alcoholic beverages may be brought to the event. Proceeds will benefit the Friends of the Park.
Although Parties on the Parkway concludes in August this year, the annual Rockin' on the River event has been moved to September. Rockin' on the River will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. Sept. 7 near the Remington Nature Center and Riverwalk. The opening act will be bluegrass group Under the Big Oak Tree. The Disappointments, a band that plays rock and pop music from the 1980s through today, will be the main act. The event will include a motorcycle and auto Shine and Show, and will end with a fireworks display presented by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City.
For more information about the events, call the St. Joseph Metro Chamber at 232-4461.
Dsoedean and Scruffy featured in Care to Learn benefit
Alternative rock band Dsoedean and blues rock trio Scruffy and the Janitors will perform at a benefit concert for the Union Star, Mo., chapter of Care to Learn on Aug. 2. The concert will be held at 9:30 p.m. at the First Ward House.
Care to Learn -- a charitable organization based in the Ozarks that provides immediate funding for the emergent health, hunger and hygiene needs of school children -- started a new branch in the small DeKalb County town in April.
In addition to the entertainment, Care to Learn will be holding a raffle and silent auction for various prizes. The cover charge for the benefit show is $5. Visit www.caretolearnfund.org/unionstar/events for more information about the show or to donate directly to Care To Learn in Union Star.
Hayes duo headlines Jazz by the River
The Richard Allen Cultural Center & Museum in Leavenworth, Kan., will host its sixth annual Jazz by the River benefit concert on Saturday, Aug. 17. Tickets are $20 in advance ($25 at the door) and can be purchased online.
The concert will be held at the Leavenworth High School Performing Arts Center with a social hour that starts at 5 p.m. The concert will begin at 6 p.m. This year's entertainment is Shanice Hayes with special guest Maurice Hayes. Nineteen-year-old Shanice Hayes is gifted with a musical style that embraces spirituals, country, jazz and blues. As a vocal duo with her father, Maurice, they reached the top 10 on the latest season of NBC's "America's Got Talent."
For more information about the concert, visit www.richardallenculturalcenter.info.
Trails West! Patrons Party celebrates 21 years
To celebrate the 21st year of the Trails West! festival, the steering committee will host the annual Trails West! Patrons Party at 6:30 p.m. Aug. 15.
Held in the Beer Garden in Civic Center Park, the Patrons' Party includes a sneak peak of this year's festival and costs only $65. The committee lowered the cost, so that more people can celebrate. To register please visit http://www.stjoearts.org/patrons_party_invite.htm, or call the Allied Arts Council at 233-0231 by Aug. 9.
The evening of fun hosted by Todd and Michele Euler and Mike and Kathy Decker features Apple Market Catering, including smoked beef brisket, summer strawberry salad and assorted appetizers and desserts. Following dinner, entertainment will be provided by the Mark Marek Trio, sponsored by Fairway Independent Mortgage and emceed by Greg Miller, morning news anchor for FOX 26 KNPN.
Admission to the festival is by souvenir button or 2013 Trails West! T-shirt. The buttons, good for admission to all three days of the festival, are on sale now and are $8 in advance and $10 at the festival gates. All guests over the age of 10 need a button for admission.
Foster's Film Festival coming this fall, seeking entries
Foster's Martini and Wine Bar will launch its first annual film festival Oct. 5. Foster's Film Festival (or FFF for short) is a new event geared toward filmmakers who are looking to have their work showcased in a public venue without the burden of entry fees. This daylong event not only will include several drink specials and a new cultural experience, but the qualifying filmmakers will be eligible for prizes across multiple categories: Drama, Comedy, Documentary, Animation, Music Video and F-Bomb (for the film that most creatively uses the ever controversial F-word).
The top film in each category will be honored with the Silver F Award. The best overall picture will take home the Golden F Award as well as the honor of being the first ever overall winner of the Foster's Film Festival.
Foster's Film Festival is not just limited to local projects. The word is being spread among filmmakers across the country to enter their best work, not only to be enjoyed by the public, but possibly honored by a panel of experienced judges.
Entries are due on Aug. 16 in DVD or Blu-Ray format. Applicants of every experience level are encouraged. Multiple entries are permitted. Selected filmmakers will be notified by Sept 1. For a complete list of rules and regulations, please visit the official website at fostersfilmfestival.com.
Shea Conner can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org. Follow him on Twitter: @stjoelivedotcom.
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A Real Estate Trophy In Boston Is Sold
By CHARLES V. BAGLI
Published: December 30, 2010
The John Hancock Tower, a 62-story glass skyscraper in Boston's Back Bay, was one of the first real estate trophies to run into trouble when the speculative property boom abruptly ended two years ago.
With the market in free fall, Normandy Real Estate Partners and Five Mile Capital Partners bought the building at a foreclosure auction 18 months ago for $660.6 million, or about half the price in 2006.
At 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Normandy and Five Mile officially sold the Hancock Tower to Boston Properties for $930 million.
''It is an epic conclusion for an iconic landmark,'' said Finn Wentworth, a founding partner at Normandy, a real estate firm based in Morristown, N.J. ''It's due to a combination of real estate savvy and capital savvy.''
Wednesday's deal reflects the current optimism coursing through the industry. Commercial buildings have recovered some of their value, and investors are looking to buy solid properties with good cash flow. Commercial mortgage securities also look healthier - although many experts warn that billions of dollars of loans are coming due in the next couple of years.
The turnaround of the Hancock Tower began with a risky plan in 2008 to buy pieces of the mezzanine debt, a junior debt that is less likely to be repaid. The goal of Normandy and Five Mile was to take control through foreclosure if the owner defaulted on the loans.
At the time no one knew if it would work, or even how much the building was worth.
Now, the strategy provides a template for other commercial real estate deals.
In 2009, the owner, Broadway Partners, defaulted on $472.1 million in secondary loans, but a senior mortgage remained current. Normandy and Five Mile bought more than $200 million in mezzanine loans from Lehman Brothers, the Royal Bank of Scotland and Greenwich Capital for about 30 cents on the dollar.
At the foreclosure auction on March 31, 2009, Normandy and Five Mile were the sole bidders, offering $20 million and taking on the senior mortgage.
''It was a pretty bold move, a calculated risk,'' said Kevin O'Shea, the partner at Allen & Overy who represented Normandy. ''They were rewarded when property values stabilized and core properties like the Hancock regained their value.''
Not everyone who has pursued the strategy has been so lucky.
William A. Ackman of Pershing Square Capital Management and Michael L. Ashner of Winthrop Realty Trust failed to gain control of the sprawling Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village this year. The two partners bought a $300 million swath of secondary loans on the Manhattan complexes for $45 million.
But their plan was foiled when the courts ruled that Mr. Ackman had to pay off the $3 billion senior mortgage before he could foreclose. Today, the 11,200-apartment properties are controlled by CW Capital, which represents the senior lenders.
''I have learned from prior experience that sometimes the better part of valor in an investment situation is to move on,'' Mr. Ackman said of the deal in his third-quarter investment letter.
The Hancock Tower, a Boston landmark since it was built in 1975, has been a barometer for the real estate boom and bust.
In the months before the merger of John Hancock and Manulife Financial of Canada, the American insurer sold the Hancock Tower and three related properties in 2003 for $926.8 million to Alan M. Leventhal, the founder of Beacon Capital Partners.
In a transaction typical of that period, Mr. Leventhal put up $304 million, or roughly one-third of the purchase price, and took on a $623 million mortgage on the four properties. Beacon valued just the Hancock Tower and a nearby garage at about $639 million, according to real estate executives familiar with the deal.
Three years later, the commercial real estate market was roaring, fed by billions of dollars from foreign investors, pension funds and insurers and cheap debt from Wall Street banks and hedge funds. Mortgages, in turn, were packaged with other loans into a securities and sold to investors - freeing even more money to make deals.
With the money flowing, developers, private equity firms and hedge funds were able to buy properties with increasingly less cash. Many borrowed up to 80 percent of the purchase price, adding sizable second mortgages or mezzanine debt.
As the market neared its peak, Scott Lawlor, founder of Broadway Partners, a highflying money manager, paid $3.4 billion for the Hancock Tower and nine other properties in December 2006. The deal valued Hancock Tower and the garage at $1.35 billion, more than double the price in 2003, according to people familiar with the deal. But it also loaded the property with debt, with a mortgage and secondary loans that covered about 82 percent of the purchase price.
''This is a significant group of marquee properties in highly desirable markets that we are confident will deliver strong risk-adjusted returns to our investors,'' Mr. Lawlor said at the time.
By the time Lehman Brothers collapsed in September 2008, property values had plunged by a third in Boston and elsewhere, according to analysts. Corporate tenants, like the Hill Holiday ad agency at the Hancock Tower, balked at constantly rising rents and moved out.
Normandy and Five Mile took over in the spring of 2009. Along the way, they refurbished the lobby and created an underground parking garage for top executives, spending more than $40 million on improvements. They were also able to offer lower rents than previous owners. And they scored a major coup in May when Bain Capital signed a lease for seven floors, a tenant lured away from a building owned by Boston Properties.
''Besides navigating the debt stack,'' said Mr. Wentworth, ''we created value the old fashioned way.''
In October, the two firms put the Hancock Tower on the auction block. Boston Properties was the winner, agreeing to put up $289.5 million and assume the $640.5 million mortgage.
The deal closed on Wednesday.
This is a more complete version of the story than the one that appeared in print.
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First of all, carefully examine the bud in the place where the petals come out from under the outer shell. If you see signs of pulling out the petals, it means only one thing - the flower has been subjected to the so-called “treatment”. In principle, the outer petals of y in many colors (for example, y roz and carnations) are subject to the aforementioned removal, but this must be done in your presence.
We take an ordinary stone from garden apricot. The larger the bone, the better. Abrikostochka looks like a fat flounder, right? On the one hand, it has a sharp comb, and the second side is smooth. Here we need it! More precisely, it is not needed, because it is precisely this that should be cut. Parallel to the longitudinal axis we grind the smooth side of the bone with a file, emery ... You can even easier - take the bone with two fingers, press it against the rough wall of the house and take a walk along it - a quarter of the bone was gone!
The enemy's weak spot, one might say, the “Achilles heel”, lies in its extreme gluttony. That is why persecution of mice takes the first place in the tactics and strategy of chalking out mice. Thus, the tactics developed, the decision is made - we will persecute! Attention! Pregnant women, children under 16 years old and Greenpeace activists are no longer recommended to read!
With the help of color, you can easily visually enlarge or reduce the size of the room. There is a simple rule: bright colors visually reduce space, and dark, on the contrary, increase. So, if you paint your apartment in purple, black, or white, an illusion of large space will be created.
And therefore we will devote ourselves to protective tricks and to safeguarding from thieves. And the first thing to think about is where to store valuables and money both in a poorly protected country house and in an abandoned city apartment. If you do not have a high-security safe or the notorious “Slavic cabinet” in your home, then the main thing you want to advise is not to listen to any advice.
Firstly, it should be borne in mind that swear words pronounced during a child automatically become allowed for him. Here, however, it is possible to argue that profanity can become known to a child without your participation. This is true, but it is important that he is aware that such expressions are not used in the family.
Suppose you set out to make something festive. And they decided to use for this purpose their old grandmother's recipe. What does kitchen wisdom tell us? And she says this. The unit of measure for the main component of a dish in an old recipe will always be illegible. Moreover, wisdom continues, if you specifically had to go for some product, then your guest will be allergic to it.
For this arrangement, highly experienced designers identify four main types of planning. To which are Y-shaped, L-shaped, two-row and, finally, single-row. It is understood that in each of the types of planning there are three hypothetical lines connecting the three centers of kitchen activity. To whom include sink, stove and refrigerator.
On this account, image makers and stylists hold the following point of view. First, they say, your wardrobe should include a gray suit. We need this costume to put it on when we appear in public places, for an important meeting, to speak on television and other performances.
One of the most popular telephone sales, especially in small cities of our homeland, has become such. Feeling a passionate desire to ever telephonize, we suddenly come across a clipping from a newspaper, which reads unequivocally “We are conducting a one-way telephone communication. Quality is guaranteed!
One of the no less attractive options than walking around the bazaar may be a romantic trip out of town. The first step in this case would be to obtain a special license to shoot two trees no more than five meters long. Otherwise, it will be necessary not only to hide the Christmas tree, but also to take the completely non-New Year flour, associated with the problem of conspiracy in the rear of the enemy.
This fraudulent trick is in use in new, newly settled houses, where residents still know each other badly. This procedure begins with the fact that in your apartment, usually in the middle of the day the bell rings. You open the door and find that there is a “neighbor” on the threshold of your apartment. Why did you decide that this is a neighbor, you ask yourself later?
First, it is necessary to pay attention to what kind of clean, shiny, and generally in all respects magnificent hair began after washing the head (legs after bathing, hands after washing uh-uh ... hands). Many experienced mothers claim that it is good to first bathe the child’s favorite doll, wash her head with shampoo, or wash her dress.
The first trick lies in the fact that if there are stains on the wallpaper, you can try to smear them with a dental powder soaked in gasoline, and when the powder dries out, brush it off the wall. Having done this operation several times, you will be able to come to the unexpected conclusion that there is no need to cover the room with new wallpaper.
First of all, I must say that it is necessary to get drunk, strictly following the above recipes. It is widely known that improper sober can lead to a binge, so today about soother without alcohol, and therefore - completely harmless. We will focus on the recipes of the ancient world. Namely - the ancient Roman and ancient Greek methods of this important occupation.
So, if the sink sink is clogged, and in your household there are no wonderful sanitary gels or this rubber piece that is usually cleaned (by the way, does anyone remember what it is called?), Then an empty cardboard bag can help you. milk Insert its cut angle into the drain hole and repeatedly press vigorously on top.
One year - print wedding. An essential addition to the main gift should be a calico handkerchief, and even better - a couple of these handkerchiefs. Very nice and symbolic little thing! In addition, on this day, it is customary to give household items: tablecloths, napkins, bed linen, curtains for windows.
Although, perhaps, there is no question as such. Of course - do not wash! After all, there is a dishwasher for this. And in order to choose the right unit, you need to answer yourself just a few questions. So, the first question: the capacity of the dishwasher. Do you have a small family and there are no mountains of dirty dishes?
For example, you are lying on the couch and think (by the way, a useful activity is akin to meditation), as if without much difficulty to stroke a crumpled tie. It is even simple, for this is the most useful "know-how". We take a crumpled tie and several times vigorously carry them back and forth along a red-hot light bulb. Until the skill is acquired, it is important to carry out the other side so that if the operation was not entirely successful and there are spots on the tie, the wardrobe item would not be hopelessly spoiled.
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APRIL 23, 2010
Pirelli joins potential F1 tyre suppliers
Pirelli's has approved a feasibility study into returning to the F1 arena it left at the end of the 1991 season with 42 victories to its name.
FIA president Jean Todt said in Bahrain that there was more than one option available when it came to replacing Bridgestone, which is pulling out of F1 at the end of this season after being sole tyre supplier for four seasons.
Other companies to have tabled an interest include Michelin, which withdrew from F1 at the end of 2006 and did not tender for the sole supply deal, saying that it was only interested in F1 if there was competition. The French company has now signalled interest in a return but is understood to want better commercial terms than previously and a rule structure allowing it to demonstrate tyre efficiency.
Avon Cooper has also pitched for the F1 business, while Pirelli, which won the first GP of the modern world championship at Silverstone in May 1950, is evaluating a return for the first time since 1991, when it scored the last of its victories in Canada. Nelson Piquet famously took full advantage in his Benetton after Nigel Mansell lost his engine when the software was believed to have stopped the car on the final lap as Mansell let the revs drop while waving to the crowd!
Goodyear is the most successful F1 tyre company ever, with 368 wins; with Bridgestone on 125; Michelin, 102; Dunlop, 83; Firestone, 49; Pirelli, 42; Continental & Englebert 10.
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The notable five-year contraction in healthcare spending growth comes to an end next year, but not in a way that marks a dramatic reversal—at least, not yet. The Medical Cost Trend: Behind the Numbers 2015 report released today from PwC’s Health Research Institute (HRI) projects a medical cost trend of 6.8% for 2015, up only slightly from the 6.5% projected for this year. Our analysis, which measures growth in the employer-based market, incorporates input from health policy analysts, industry executives, earnings statements, government data and actuaries from more than a dozen insurance companies, whose companies cover a combined 93 million members.
Much of this is simple and not surprising based on historical analysis: the healthcare “economic recovery” lags behind the broader economy. So we are now beginning to see the recovery—with more employed workers and more disposable income—loosen up spending on things such as doctor visits and diagnostic tests. Many Americans, after postponing care, are once again spending on their health needs.
Some underlying nuances in the health numbers are more complex and uncertain: greater total spending on health services is not the same as higher costs per person. Even as private health spending ticks upward, evidence reveals that structural changes over the past few years have produced greater efficiency in the $2.8 trillion US health industry. As with any evolution, there is uncertainty. Some of our big healthcare investments today are a financial gamble. Most notably, the burst of high-cost “specialty” drugs could result in lower treatment costs on chronic conditions in future years or signal the start of painfully expensive pharmaceutical bills.
The most durable long-term factors holding down costs are those that instill a new philosophy about care delivery. For instance, health systems and hospitals striving for “systemness,” in which care teams seek to achieve more by working together. They are focusing specifically in two areas: streamlining administrative work and consolidating and standardizing clinical programs, which can provide higher quality care through consistent processes and outcomes.
With about 60% of hospital budgets spent on labor, personnel costs are a top priority. Since 2012, hospital employment growth has slowed and is projected to continue on this trend—evidence that providers are achieving improved efficiency with fewer resources.
Continue reading “The Long and Short of Health Numbers”
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Tagged: Care Delivery, Costs, health spending, Medical inflation
Jun 24, 2014
Reducing gun violence by increasing access to mental health services may cost billions of taxpayer dollars and give drugmakers that help treat mental illness a revenue windfall. But will it reduce gun violence? The answer is uncertain.
In the wake of the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, there have been repeated calls to increase access to mental health services as a way to reduce gun violence in the U.S., even though the evidence is weak at best that those services actually reduce gun violence.
Absent from these calls to action is any sense of how much that policy would cost. Many argue that any cost is worthwhile if it prevents just one needless death due to gun violence. But we live in austere fiscal times and knowing the price tag before taking action makes sense (click on the image above to enlarge).
A just-published Bloomberg Government Study estimates that the potential impact on the federal deficit due to increased spending on mental health services could exceed $260 billion from 2014 to 2021.
Continue reading “Drugmakers May Win Big in Effort to Curb Gun Violence”
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Tagged: antidepressants, Antipsychotics, gun violence, health spending, Mental Health, Pharmaceutical companies, Sandy Hook
Feb 13, 2013
A recent spate of commentaries on the continuing health spending moderation raise an important policy question: If the cost curve is well and truly bent, why are we investing so much of our policy energy on bending it further, when the more pressing problem is the declining percentage of Americans that can afford our health system’s astronomical costs?
Health spending the past two reported years (2009 and 2010) have grown in the high 3 percent range, the lowest growth rates since Dwight Eisenhower’s last year in office (1960), five years before Medicare. Medicare’s actuaries have pointed to the recession as a root cause. Yet even Medicare spending growth has subsided to about 5 percent in 2010, a development hard to attribute to recession since so few Medicare patients have first-dollar cost exposure. This analyst’s extensive industry contacts suggest no spending rebound in 2011 and 2012, despite an aging population and fee-for-service’s pernicious volume-increasing incentives in full force.
Pharmaceutical spending. The two most explosive cost problems of the 1980’s and 1990’s, pharmaceutical spending and imaging — which together now represent about 20 percent of total health spending — are now seeing low single digit growth, and seem likely to remain quiescent. In the pharma case, the main contributor is the ruinous outflow of branded drugs from patent protection, and the failure to replace them with new protected drugs. This outflow continues unabated until 2018. Branded drug prescriptions are shrinking by 5 percent per year, and the only things preventing pharmaceutical sales from actually declining are brand price increases and growth in generics, which now represent almost 80 percent of prescriptions, according to IMS Health. While specialty drugs (biologicals) remain a concern, those too begin losing patent protection in earnest in the next few years.
Continue reading “Barking Up The Wrong Tree: Affordability, Not Cost Growth, Is The Policy Challenge”
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Tagged: ACOs, baby boom docs, Deficit Reduction Act, Fee-for-service, health spending, Imaging, Medicare, pharmaceuticals
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Matt Clark and Jackson Katzenback are the creators of the Amazing Selling Machine. This combo was taught by Rich Henderson and Mike McClary who were their instructors. Considering the changes in web usage, the course keeps getting upgraded from time to time. ASM is an Amazon FBA course that teaches one how to construct physical products endeavors on Amazon. Legit Products You Can Sell On Amazon
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The SDA is currently seeking to secure significant improvements for part time workers in the Fast Food Industry Award (FFIA) in a case before the FWC as part of its 4-yearly review of modern awards.
SDA National Secretary Gerard Dwyer said that the changes to the part time clause in the Award will promote part time employment in an industry which is characterised by casual and insecure work, providing greater security of hours and a guaranteed minimum of at least 8 hours per week – a significant improvement on the current zero hour entitlement.
“Like many Australians, fast food workers are under increasing pressure. Historically low wage growth, cuts to penalty rates and casualisation have made it extraordinarily difficult to make ends meet.”
“For part time workers, those difficulties are multiplied by the nature of insecure work. Underemployment and the irregularity of hours creates enormous stress for part time workers in the fast food industry.”
“The improvements we’ve secured in the Award will not only provide a guaranteed minimum of 8 hours per week with the option of doing more, they also deliver improved rostering arrangements that will provide greater security and control for part time workers over their rostered hours each week.”
“This is particularly important for part time fast food workers who are parents, carers and students juggling commitments and responsibilities outside of work hours.”
The improved rostering provisions will obligate employers to prepare and make available a roster which sets out the name of each employee, the days of the week to be worked, and their start and finishing times.
The roster may only be changed either by mutual consent at any time or by amendment of the roster on seven days’ notice and can only be changed to hours that are within the employees’ availability.
“Consistent with the ACTU’s drive for more secure and meaningful employment, we’re pleased these improvements to the Award will encourage increased permanency and provide a guaranteed minimum income for Australia’s part time fast food workers.”
This matter is now currently before the FWC who will determine the matter in due course.
The full list of improvements sought to the Fast Food Industry Award for part time workers includes:
- Guaranteed minimum of at least 8 hours per week (currently no minimum applies)
- Access to additional hours
- Can only be rostered within the availability provided by the worker at the point of engagement
- Ability to change availability with 14 days’ notice if an employee’s circumstances have changed
- Ability to ask for an increase in the number of guaranteed minimum hours if an employee has regularly worked in excess of the guaranteed minimum hours over a 12-month period
- Provision ensuring any existing rostering arrangements continue unless a new agreement is reached regarding hours
- Agreed additional hours will be paid at ordinary rates and accrue personal leave and annual leave
- Any additional hours worked which are not agreed continue to be paid at overtime rates.
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Before anything else, I just want to send my love to everyone who was affected by the awful events that happened in Paris last evening. My heart aches thinking about how devastating reality has been for you during the past day.
I am back with an overdue review of a skincare product that I have been using for a few months. I only took a temporary break from it three weeks ago, while giving the Kypris Antioxidant Dew* a try (which did not work for my skin at all, as I mentioned in this post). The Antioxidant Dew left my skin more congested than it had not been in a long time. After quitting the Dew, I went straight back to the Yuli M.E. Skin Fuel and my skin cleared out in a couple of days. Not a coincidence, for sure.
The M.E. Skin Fuel is a lightweight serum oil, possibly the lightest in the Yuli range in terms of consistency. The blend includes several plant oils and no essential oils at all. It does, however, have a very light jasmine-esque scent. Below is a breakdown of the key ingredients.
What’s in it
The first ingredient in the serum is Jojoba oil, which has a pretty clean record when it comes to blemish-prone skin. Most people with acne can safely use Jojoba oil as it is known to be non-comedogenic. It is also a source of fatty acids and has anti-inflammatory benefits¹. Jojoba can be used on several skin conditions, such as infections and wound healing, and has some benefits on aging skin. Jojoba oil is also know to provide long-lasting hydration to the skin².
The second ingredient is my all time favorite beauty oil, Argan. I already wrote a post (which you can read here) about some of the benefits of Argan oil, especially for combination and oily skin. Argan is known to have some balancing properties and somehow help “containing” sebum production. A more recent study³, has also highlighted the effective anti-aging benefits of Argan oil, making it a good option for mature skin as well.
The third ingredient is Apricot Kernel oil. This one is also know to be a great option for more oily skin types, as it seems to absorb very well and not leave a greasy layer on the skin. Apricot Kernel oil is also rich in vitamin E, and of course, fatty acids.
The fourth ingredient is one of stars of the game, Black Cumin Seed oil. According to several studies, Black Cumin has strong pharmacological potential in dermatology. Some of the effects that have been noted are: reduction of skin irritation, improvement of skin hydration, and improvement of the epidermal barrier⁴. It has anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial properties.
Fifth ingredient is Pomegranate oil. According to a study, pomegranate oil may reduce UVB induced sun damage, such as wrinkles and inflammation⁵, due to a compound called Ellagic acid⁶.
Next, there’s Red Raspberry Seed oil. It is high in Vitamin A and E, and like Pomegranate oil, it’s rich in Ellagic acid. RRSO is also known to provide some UV protection, although scientists don’t recommend using it as sunscreen of choice until further studies and tests have taken place (they have not determinate the spf value). This is why I consider the M.E. Skin Fuel an excellent face serum for daytime, as it does not carry the photo-toxic risks that other face oils do.
Broccoli Seed oil has gain a bit of popularity among face oils because it has a silky texture that is very similar to silicone (it has a smooth, almost slippery feel to it). It is a source of sulforaphane, which has shown some protection from UV-caused, skin photo damage.
Sea Buckthorn is loaded with vitamins, antioxidants, and other beneficial nutrients. It was shown to promote collagen production⁸. Like Broccoli Seed oil, it has some UV protecting properties⁹.
What the brand says about it
Yuli Skincare describes the M.E. Skin Fuel as “a precisely blended nutrient cocktail for skin loaded with vitamins, antioxidants, lipids, minerals, and phytonutrients suitable for all skin types, especially for younger and blemish prone skin. This silky textured, 100% plant based bioactive facial oil is fuel for skin to optimize its condition. Precious organic key actives such as Pomegranate Seed and Apricot Kernel fend off environmental and stress induced damage while repairing, renewing and stimulating skin on a cellular level. This potent nutrient powerhouse is ideal for those with normal to combination and blemish-prone skin as it calibrates sebum levels and speeds up recovery from skin damage. The transformative, multitasking Skin Fuel acts as food for skin, delivering optimal active nutrients daily to enhance skin quality, perfect cell function, and prevent premature aging. Your skin will be left clear, nourished, rejuvenated, and velvety soft.
How I use it
Morning and evening, after cleansing. I first spritz some hydrating mist (I just moved onto a new bottle of the MUN No 11 Anarose Toner* after finishing a bottle of Metamorphic Elixir). Next, while my skin is still damp, I apply 3-4 drops of the M.E. Skin Fuel face serum, (which comes with a glass dropper that allows for careful dispensing of the product), gently patting it all over my face until it’s evenly distributed (even around my eyes). At night, I usually add 1-2 more drops. Alternatively, I spritz a little toner into the palm of my hand, and then dispense a few drops of serum into it and apply onto the skin. This has become my favorite method of application lately, because I avoid getting face mist into my hair, I use less face mist, and the mix goes on so smoothly, covering my entire face and neck. I could probably get away with less product, but I like to use just a little extra.
Honestly, I did not expect to love this serum as much as I now do, to the point that I will get a new bottle soon (I am actually almost out of it! I probably have just another 3-4 days of use.). I had great results with the Yuli Liquid Courage Antioxidant Serum and thought that no serum could have topped that one. Instead, my skin has been so healthy and balanced while using this serum that I even had some wow! moments looking at my skin in the morning. I have plenty of skin imperfections, and some of them (my very old sun spots, for example) would probably require medical treatments to be corrected, but I think that everything that a face serum could do for my skin in terms of improvement (balance, hydration, protection), I have experienced it all with this serum. In addition to that, I find that the lightweight, silky texture of the M.E. Skin Fuel works well under makeup (better than any other face oil I have tried).
For these reasons, I absolutely recommend giving this serum a try, if it fits your budget (it’s on the expensive side; just a little below $100). However, I must say that with Yuli skin care I never feel like I am over-paying, especially when I compare them to the some other luxury, green beauty brands. I often feel like I could make some of those products myself, mixing up the ingredients in my kitchen and get the same exact quality. The quality of the Yuli ingredients is, to my knowledge, as high as it can get. The formulas are carefully tested, and they are free of the ingredients I want to avoid in my products, such as essential oils and photo-toxic ingredients.
Just a quick FYI. I was once asked if I work for Yuli, since I feature their products quite often. Not only do I NOT work for them (I have never even met anyone who works at Yuli), I have never been sent any samples for editorial consideration, nor have any of their retailers sent me free products. I only give them glowing reviews because their products work very well for my skin and have worked great for many of my readers who have tried them.
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Pinagua Project Background
Pinagua, small town near Oropesa, has an economy largely supported by agriculture and a community that maintains a basic standard of living. Unlike other nearby towns, Pinagua doesn’t have access to services for education, health, or related programs. Project manager, Luz Chapi, explained how especially women in the community live in the margins because they have very few options for making a livable income. After talking with the women – many of whom know staff through their after school programming for children – Picaflor House decided to create a project that would empower women with greater financial independence.
Women in the area predominantly exist as housewives who are dependent on their husbands for resources. Most men in the community are contract workers who have temporary jobs that produce an inconsistent income. When income from their husbands is absent, women depend on farming and caring for their animals to survive. Their only option to get money during these times is through selling meat or crops at the market in Oropesa.
Why Guinea Pigs?
Eight families in Pinagua were selected to participate in the women’s empowerment program based on feedback staff had received from women who were eager to work hard to improve their situations. The area has a high demand for guinea pig (or cuy), which is considered a culinary delicacy in the Sacred Valley region of Peru. In collaboration with the community, the project was designed to assist women in raising and selling cuyes.
A group of WECO volunteers from Portland, Oregon came mid-way through the building portion to work a couple of days with the community and lead a financial literacy workshop to teach women basic budgeting skills. The workshop was the first training women in the area had ever had, and will be part of an ongoing support structure in financial management. Ten women attended (including women who expressed interest in joining the program as it expands), and the workshop was translated into both Spanish and Quechua.
We know from research on economic empowerment how supporting women enriches entire communities because of how women tend to distribute earnings around their families and for social betterment. For this community of women, the empowerment project is critical in providing tools that will help them start their businesses. Women in Pinagua will have more control over their food production and income, and will receive guidance and support with business development and financial management. Future trainings will include workshops on gender equality, animal care techniques, market selling, and self-esteem and confidence-building.
WECO co-founders, Rebecca and Jenny, sat down with Luz, and community members, Erlinda and Juana, to have a conversation about how the cuy project carries impact for women in the community. In addition to this project, Luz works with Picaflor House on their after school youth programs, and she was a key force behind the creation of the project in Pinagua. Luz acted as the WECO translator and guide, and speaks English, Spanish, and Quechua.
Juana’s cuy building is 90% finished and will serve as space for two pens: one for her and one for her daughter, so they each will have their own separate businesses. The space will be divided with adobe bricks and the roof will be mended so cuyes will stay warm during the rainy season and colder months. Juana expressed gratitude over and over for the opportunity to be more than a housewife. The space will allow her and her daughter to improve their lives and depend less on unreliable income from their spouses. It will also keep them from having to kill or sell their other animals when they need money.
Erlinda discussed how having a cuy business will help her support herself and her young family, as her husband doesn’t consistently bring in money. In the past she felt disrespected and neglected by her husband, on whom she was completely dependent. Raising cuyes will give her more reliability in income and in caring for her family, as well as more options for her future. Unlike before, when she wasn’t allowed to be involved in decision-making about finances, she will now be in complete control of funds from her cuy business. In essence, it will give her greater freedom to make healthy financial decisions along with more financial stability. A goal of future trainings is to support women like Erlinda in understanding their rights so they can have better standing in the community along with higher self-confidence.
So far, four families have started construction with funding assistance from WECO. Four more families are on a waiting list while other funding streams are explored by project staff. During WECO’s trip to Pinagua, there was additional interest from families in other areas around the community. Some of the interested women showed up to the financial literacy training to learn more about how they could get involved.
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Danny Postel is Associate Director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Denver and co-hosts its series of video interviews with leading scholars. He is the author of Reading “Legitimation Crisis” in Tehran and co-editor of The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran’s Future and The Syria Dilemma, which was named one of the best books of 2013 in The Progressive. He is a co-editor of PULSE and blogs for Truthout, Critical Inquiry and the Huffington Post. He was a member of Chicago’s No War on Iran coalition, communications coordinator for Interfaith Worker Justice, and communications specialist for Stand Up! Chicago, a coalition of labor unions and grassroots community organizations.
Iranian Dissidents Explain Why They Support the Nuclear Deal
We know what politicians from the U.S. to Israel think about the Iran nuclear deal. How about asking some opponents of Iran's regime?
Memories of an Afternoon with the Late Eduardo Galeano
Remembering an interview between a "poetically tone-deaf leftist" and the giant of the Latin American Left.
It Wasn’t About Oil, and It Wasn’t About the Free Market: Why We Invaded Iraq
Muhammad Idrees Ahmad's new book not only interrogates the motivations behind the 2003 invasion of Iraq, but also reveals a cautionary tale for the present.
Should We Oppose the Intervention Against ISIS?
Most U.S. leftists say yes. But voices we rarely hear—Kurds and members of the Syrian opposition—have more ambiguous views.
Iran’s Green Movement, the Basij and the Question of Violence
A response to Matthew Cassel's "An American in Tehran."
The Selective Solidarity of the Left
Citizen of a Lost Country
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juggler and comedy nerd--but not necessarily in that order."
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Running the Numbers
In Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait (2006-2009),
Chris Jordan documents selected statistics about the United
States in visual format.
For instance, click on what looks like Seurat's masterpiece of
pointilism, Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte,
to reveal that Jordan has reproduced that painting out of
aluminum cans--106,000 of them, the number used every thirty
seconds in the United States. Similarly, zoom in on an image
of tree trunks by clicking it, and see that Jordan made it out
of 1.14 million brown paper supermarket bags--the number used
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What did you shoot today? Heritage is a community of film photographers sharing stories and photos.
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After the village of Mouli was attacked and looted on January 9 by militiamen (with five villagers and three militiamen killed) (1), approximately one thousand villagers went to the state capital a few miles to the north, El Geneina (2). On January 10 they were joined by residents of El Geneina in front of the governor’s office to protest insecurity in the area, the protests turned violent and at least twelve people were killed(1,2). The following day it was reported to the UN that the thousand villagers had moved to the Abu Zar Internally Displaced Persons camp in El Geneina, with more on the way from Mouli (2).
For some time now people from Central Darfur State, Darfuris returning from Central African Republic and refugees from CAR have been In the South Darfur areas of Rahad el Berdi and Um Dafug, putting strain on the original households there (2). On January 10 aid groups estimated that 73,000 people were in need of water, health and sanitation assistance. The International Office for Migration plans to confirm this estimate; aid groups will then plan how to help (ibid.).
Hundreds more civilians in the Jebel Marra region have reportedly been driven from their villages due to fighting between the rebels, the government and government-allied militias, taking refuge in the mountains after several villages were attacked. Witnesses report that civilians have been killed (3).
Dengue fever, a virus spread by mosquitoes that can sometimes cause haemorrhagic symptons, may be stabilizing in Darfur, which is the part of Sudan reporting the most cases and deaths since the outbreak started late last August. UNOCHA also reports that the residents of Bindisi displaced camp who were driven out by attacks by nomads late last month have returned.
- Radio Dabanga, Jan. 10, 2016, Nine dead in militia attacks, protests in West Darfur, https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/nine-dead-in-militia-attacks-demonstration-in-west-darfur-capital
- UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Humanitarian Bulletin Sudan, 4 – 10 January 2016, http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/OCHA_Sudan_Weekly_Humanitarian_Bulletin_Issue_02_%284_-_10_January_2016%29.pdf
- Radio Dabanga, Jan. 15, 2016, Civilian casualties by heavy fighting in Darfur’s Jebel Marra https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/civilian-casualties-by-heavy-fighting-in-darfur-s-jebel-marra | 2018-12-12T01:19:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376823710.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20181212000955-20181212022455-00408.warc.gz | en | 0.953005 | 595 | {
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The NetworkDownloadable Audiobook - 2010
In this bold novel, Jason Elliot illuminates the dark recesses of the intelligence community during a crucial moment in history: the struggle to avoid a terrorist attack.In the months before 9/11, former army officer Anthony Taverner is leading a quiet life in the English countryside. But his recruitment for a dangerous mission to Afghanistan by the British Secret Intelligence Service-better known as MI6-shatters his fragile peace and plunges him into the kaleidoscopic world of spying. Under the expert guidance of an old-school hero and veteran of the elite British Special Air Service, Taverner prepares to enter Taliban-controlled Afghanistan to destroy a cache of the CIA's precious Stinger missiles before they can fall into the hands of al-Qaeda. In Britain and America, the intelligence community is poised for a catastrophe that must be kept secret from the public, one that Taverner must attempt to avert-all without exposing a dangerous secret all his own.Based on real characters and drawing on the author's extensive firsthand knowledge of Afghanistan, this is a thriller of rare authenticity, providing sustained insight into influences surrounding 9/11 and raising questions about the role of intelligence agencies in historical events deliberately hidden from the public eye.
Publisher: [United States] : Tantor Media, Inc. : Made available through hoopla, 2010.
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COMING UP: March 25 - april 3
Educational Expert Martin Carnoy Lectures on How Diversity Makes Smart Economic Policy
An international perspective on how diversity and social justice make smart economic policy is the topic of a free public lecture by Dr. Martin Carnoy at 7 p.m. on Thurs., April 1 in Person Theatre. He hosts a question-and- answer style discussion with students and faculty members from 3 p.m.-4:30 p.m. the same day in Schulz 3001. A book signing follows the 7 p.m. lecture. The title of the lecture is "Educational Equity and Social Justice as Smart Economic Policy: An International Perspective."
Carnoy is a labor economist with a special interest in the political economy of the educational system. Studying all aspects of educational policy, and focusing more specifically on what happens inside schools that affects students and their ability to learn, Carnoy has done extensive research specific to diversity within schools internationally. In his April 1 lecture, he will be addressing the issues of minority education, both here in the United States and internationally.
Carnoy has done a great deal of his research inside schools, interviewing and testing teachers, students and faculty members. His current work entails researching econometric models of quality of education in Latin America and Southern Africa and studying the changes with university financing, including the quality of engineering and science tertiary education in China, India and Russia.
Martin Carnoy is Vida Jacks Professor of Education and Economics at Stanford University, holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago, and worked at the Brookings Institution on international trade issues before joining Stanford. In 1968, he ran the District of Columbia primary for the Robert Kennedy campaign, was the Democratic candidate for Congress in California’s 12th congressional district in 1984, and organized economists for Clinton in California in 1992 and 1996.
He has written more than 30 books on economic issues, racial inequality, and education policy, and blogs regularly for the Huffington Post. His presentation is co-sponsored by the Andrea Neves and Barton Evans Social Justice Lecture Series and the Heritage Lecture Series, and is hosted by the School of Education and the School of Social Sciences. For further information, contact Pam Van Halsema, School of Education, at 4-2132.
The Imaginary Invalid Wraps Up Its Run at SSU
Sonoma State University's Department of Theatre Arts and Dance presents, "The Imaginary Invalid," a comic farce by Moliere and translated by Martin Sorrell. The performance is directed By Paul Draper, with original music by Hélène Renaut, and dramaturgy by Scott Horstein. "The Imaginary Invalid" is Moliere's very last play, a wild comic ride deep into the imagination of a perfectly healthy man who thinks he is dying, while his wife plots, his children rebel, and his doctors pronounce his imminent demise.
Thurs., March 25 at 7:30 p.m. *
Sat., March 27 at 7:30 p.m. (Final Performance)
The performance on Thurs., March 25 will be followed by a post-show discussion with the cast and director.
All performances take place in Evert B. Person Theatre. General admission is $15, $12 for faculty, alumni and seniors, $8 for non-SSU students, and free for SSU students with a valid ID. Group and family rates are also available. for more information, visit the School of Performing Arts website, or call the Box Office at 4-2353.
Envisioning Another World: How Grassroots Activism Affects Welfare Mothers' Perspective on Poverty Policy
In this installment of the Women’s and Gender Studies Departments Spring 2010 Faculty Research Colloquia, "Gendered Intersections," Sheila Katz (right) of the sociology department explores women, welfare and poverty policy. Her lecture takes place Mon., March 29 from noon-1 p.m. in Stevenson 2011.
Through longitudinal research with women on welfare pursuing higher education since the 1996 welfare reforms, Katz explores how women on welfare would change poverty policy, including welfare regulations. These multiple perspectives of women on welfare are important to consider when crafting social policies because the women have lived experience with the social policies that most crafting these policies do not. In this discussion, Katz will explore how the narratives and policy suggestions of women on welfare who are involved in a grassroots welfare-rights organization differ significantly from women on welfare who are not. | 2014-11-28T11:05:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-49/segments/1416931010149.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20141125155650-00118-ip-10-235-23-156.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947757 | 925 | {
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IFA’s emergency pig meeting looks set to be a lively affair
An emergency meeting of the IFA pig committee is taking place on Thursday in Portlaoise as pressure grows on its Chairman.
The last week has seen significant unrest develop among pig producers as poor returns continued over the summer.
However, an underlying unhappiness among some pig producers with the IFA Pig Committee Chairman is expected to surface at the meeting.
It comes as the EU announced further details of its €500m package aimed to alleviate ongoing issues for dairy and pig farmers across Europe.
Under the proposals, put forward by the European Commissioner for Agriculture Phil Hogan, the pigmeat sector receive part of the €13.73m package Ireland will receive. The pigmeat sector across Europe has been hit by the continuing Russian ban on EU food and drink.
According to IFA Pig Committee Chairman Pat O’Flaherty, export refunds and the re-opening of the Russian market are necessary to address the long term viability of the Irish pig industry. Ireland is currently 101% of the European average price.
Meanwhile, a number of pig producers are calling for the IFA Pig Committee Chairman to resign.
Co. Limerick pig farmer Tom Horan said IFA National Pigs Committee Chairman Pat O’Flaherty has to step down from his position, following the recent launch of O’Flaherty’s new branded pork business.
“My understanding is that the new company has a supply contract with an Irish supermarket,” said Horan.
“This leaves Pat O’Flaherty in a position where he cannot represent the Irish pig sector with total impartiality. He now has a total conflict of interest. And, given these circumstances, he should resign immediately from his position as pigs’ committee chairman.”
Responding to these comments O’Flaherty said that he has no intention of resigning from his position as pigs’ committee chairman.
O’Flaherty pointed out that it would be almost impossible to get anyone without a secondary commercial interest to act as chair of any IFA committee and that Tom Horan is a shareholder in the Truly Irish pork business.
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Mulberries are delicious and nutritious, people all over the world enjoy it. Mulberries are a product of the Morus alba tree. Its leaves, which also contain nutrients and are even used as food for silkworms, are thin, glossy and light green; the fruit, like grapes, is red or white and grows in bunches called “drupes.”
Benefits of Mulberries
1. Source of Antioxidants
Antioxidants help lessen the damage caused by free radicals and the entire mulberry plant- leaves, stems, and fruit, contains antioxidants. One antioxidant in particular, resveratrol, has gotten much attention. Research published by the University of Texas Health Science Center credits resveratrol for positive effects on age and longevity.
2. Immune System Support
Mulberries contain alkaloids that activate macrophages. Macrophages are white blood cells that stimulate the immune system, putting it on high active alert against health threats.
3. Supports Healthy Blood Sugar
More formal research is appropriate, but mulberry is thought to contain compounds that support balanced blood sugar levels. Traditional medicine in China, Trinidad and Tobago have all used mulberry leaves to promote balanced blood sugar levels.
4. Healthy Food!
Dried mulberries are a great source of protein, vitamin C and K, fiber, and iron. Best of all, they're available in health food stores everywhere! Enjoy them as a great snack all by themselves or add them to your favorite trail mix. If you live in a warm climate and are lucky enough to have mulberry trees nearby, you can enjoy the fruit fresh off the tree. Not as tasty as the fruit, even the leaves contain protein, fiber, and nutrients!
5. Resists Redness
Practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine have used mulberry as a remedy for swelling and redness. A recent Romanian study discovered that a curcumin and mulberry leaf combination may be a new lead into natural remedies for this sort of irritation.
6. Brain Protection?
Do mulberries offer anything to the brain? Researchers at Khon Kaen University in Thailand set out to answer that question by evaluating the effect of mulberry on male rats with memory impairment and brain damage. Although further investigation is required before mulberries can be declared a cognitive enhancer and neuroprotectant, rats that consumed mulberries had better memories and less oxidative stress.
- Wang W, Zu Y, Fu Y, Efferth T. In vitro antioxidant and antimicrobial activity of extracts from Morus alba L. leaves, stems and fruits. Am J Chin Med. 2012;40(2):349-56.
- Imran M, Khan H, Shah M, Khan R, Khan F. Chemical composition and antioxidant activity of certain Morus species. J Zhejiang Univ Sci B. 2010 Dec;11(12):973-80. doi: 10.1631/jzus.B1000173.
- Shankar S, Singh G, Srivastava RK. Chemoprevention by resveratrol: molecular mechanisms and therapeutic potential. Front Biosci. 2007 Sep 1;12:4839-54. Review.
- Kim SB, Chang BY, Jo YH, Lee SH, Han SB, Hwang BY, Kim SY, Lee MK. Macrophage activating activity of pyrrole alkaloids from Morus alba fruits. J Ethnopharmacol. 2013 Jan 9;145(1):393-6. doi: 10.1016/j.jep.2012.11.007. Epub 2012 Nov 16.
- Kimura T, Nakagawa K, Kubota H, Kojima Y, Goto Y, Yamagishi K, Oita S, Oikawa S, Miyazawa T. Food-grade mulberry powder enriched with 1-deoxynojirimycin suppresses the elevation of postprandial blood glucose in humans. J Agric Food Chem. 2007 Jul 11;55(14):5869-74. Epub 2007 Jun 8.
- Lans CA. Ethnomedicines used in Trinidad and Tobago for urinary problems and diabetes mellitus. J Ethnobiol Ethnomed. 2006 Oct 13;2:45.
- Wang HJ, Chiang BH. Anti-diabetic effect of a traditional Chinese medicine formula. Food Funct. 2012 Nov;3(11):1161-9. doi: 10.1039/c2fo30139c.
- Kandylis K, Hadjigeorgiou I, Harizanis P. The nutritive value of mulberry leaves (Morus alba) as a feed supplement for sheep. Trop Anim Health Prod. 2009 Jan;41(1):17-24. doi: 10.1007/s11250-008-9149-y. Epub 2008 Mar 15.
- Chen YC, Tien YJ, Chen CH, Beltran FN, Amor EC, Wang RJ, Wu DJ, Mettling C, Lin YL, Yang WC. Morus alba and active compound oxyresveratrol exert anti-inflammatory activity via inhibition of leukocyte migration involving MEK/ERK signaling. BMC Complement Altern Med. 2013 Feb 23;13:45. doi: 10.1186/1472-6882-13-45.
- Pirvulescu MM, Gan AM, Stan D, Simion V, Calin M, Butoi E, Tirgoviste CI, Manduteanu I. Curcumin and a Morus alba extract reduce pro-inflammatory effects of resistin in human endothelial cells. Phytother Res. 2011 Dec;25(12):1737-42. doi: 10.1002/ptr.3463. Epub 2011 Mar 28.
- Kaewkaen P, Tong-Un T, Wattanathorn J, Muchimapura S, Kaewrueng W, Wongcharoenwanakit S. Mulberry Fruit Extract Protects against Memory Impairment and Hippocampal Damage in Animal Model of Vascular Dementia. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2012;2012:263520. doi: 10.1155/2012/263520. Epub 2012 Aug 16.
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What was I thinking?!
I couldn't get much further out of my comfort zone of simple plain monochrome clothes than the Peter Pilotto for Target collection. There where a few pieces that where more simple and toned down but I was inexplicably drawn to the crazy floral prints and decided to just go for it.
Its only clothes right?!
I would have regretted not getting a couple of things, I am a bit of a sucker for designer/highstreet collaborations. Being that I am in America I ordered directly from the Target website but I know friends who ordered from Net-a-Porter back home.
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A Group for lesbian mothers to share stories, challenges, and experiences as gay moms. A place to meet up with other moms and make new friends.
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Welcome to a special edition of Prep Step: we have guests! Students from OCHS lend some helpful advice, and guest writer Olga Cordero, Counselor at Rocky Mountain Elementary (soon to be Director of Education Equity and Community Engagement) joins us with some thoughts on anxiety management.
Some Notes on Anxiety
If you’ve turned on tv at all in the last few weeks, you’ve noticed it’s Olympics season. Most of the time I watch it with a cringe: I know these athletes have practiced these routines to perfection… I also know they now have a global audience, they’re surrounded by more cameras than Best Buy could imagine, and they’re performing on behalf of their country. No pressure!
So though they “know the material” and have amazing skills – they still fall prey to errors and stumbles. The pressure can change you. It can make you forget what you actually know, and second guess things you normally wouldn’t question.
These are common symptoms of performance anxiety.
There are other kinds of anxiety too – the kind when you aren’t prepared for the situation, don’t know how to make success happen, and don’t really know what success looks like. It reminds me of a scene in Justice League where Flash is about to enter a fight with Steppenwolf – watch this clip:
A few forces were at work here that create a different type of anxiety than the Olympics-variation:
-Flash wasn’t prepared for the situation
-He didn’t know how to make success happen
-He didn’t know what success would look like
-He is afraid of getting thrashed
If you’re in the the Olympics or facing Steppenwolf, you kind of can’t adequately prepare for the situation. You can’t replicate those things often enough to become comfortable in them.
It’s actually kind of how most students approach the SAT.
Addressing the SAT
And now here’s how the Flash/ Olympics situation is NOT at all like the SAT: almost everything can be predicted and controlled for on this test.
–Are you prepared for the situation? (Looked at skills and format? Paid attention in class?)
-Do you know what success will look like for you? (What’s a good score for your individual goals?)
–Do you know how to make success happen? (What resources do you have? Check here if you don’t know)
-The SAT is a non-violent assessment, so we’re good on point 4.
Batman’s advice of “just get one” makes a LOT of sense. He advises Barry to work to his strengths and start small – then decide what to do next. Make a plan to work on one thing a night, and determine ahead of time what success looks like in that situation.
Preparation will significantly diminish much of your anxiety. For the nerves that preparation alone doesn’t fix, here’s some advice from our guest expert, Ms Cordero:
- Learn to recognize anxiety: racing heartbeat, loss of concentration, feelings of nausea and panic.
- To reduce anxiety before a performance, practice mindfulness and relaxation. Here are some helpful links: https://www.dharma.org/, https://www.mindful.org/meditation/mindfulness-getting-started/, and
- Develop a positive statement for yourself before you walk into the testing site. “I can do this!” or “One at a time” – even write it when you feel stuck.
- Arrive at the testing site prepared, rested, and early! If you arrive early, you can take some time to become familiar with the testing site and proctor.
- Definitely review the night before, and practice active recall strategies for things you need to memorize. The old adage of ‘taking the night off before the test’ has largely been debunked. But don’t do anything new that might create more stress. Just review and recall what you know.
- Don’t pay attention to what others are doing. Focus on your own pace. Watch the clock and look at the test before starting. Allocate time to each part of the test.
- Just get started. Once you get your test, jump right in and start with reading the directions and questions carefully. Work through the questions one by one.
- Have an escape route: a plan for knowing when to move on from a tough question. (For math, we recommend noticing at least 3-4 things about the question in a short, bulleted list . If you still don’t know what to do, don’t waste any more time. Move on!)
- Know your goals – not every question is important, and you WILL miss some!!
- Make a list of the reasons you’re stressed about this exam, then create an action plan based on that. (I’m afraid of running out of time. The clock stresses me out. – SO use a clock/ timer during practice, start timing other things, give yourself only 5 minutes to practice that stressful feeling.)
- EXERCISE! The research between brain activity and exercise is bountiful, and our brains work better when we’ve walked even just for 20 minutes. Exercise daily and try to get in a walk the morning of your test.
At the end of that scene (spoiler alert), Flash saves a lot of people – including Wonder Woman. And he eventually faces Superman in a foot race and wins. If that race can start with a single step, then so can your SAT. And in comic lore, Flash beats Superman. You’ve got this.
Here are some warming thoughts from students at OCHS.
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1. No Zumba for me this morning. It’s a great morning for an outside run and there won’t be many of these left.
2. Wanted to go to Yoga last night, but I’ve been in this weird headache situation for days. It might have been really good, but then again…
3. Thinking about SCRAPPED and its release. Dec. 31. It hardly seems possible. My second novel.
4. Pulling together a blog tour.
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The younger sibling of Samsung’s current flagship model has just been officially announced in South Korea. The Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini, which can also be considered as the follow up to the Galaxy SIII Mini, will be released through mobile provider KT and will also come with a couple of limited time offers.
As expected this model is smaller than the Galaxy S4. Its display size of 4.3-inches is perfect for consumers looking for a compact smartphone that still packs in power. On the hardware side the Galaxy S4 Mini uses lowered specs such as a 1.7 GHz dual-core processor combined with 1.5 GB of RAM. The average smartphone user won’t notice any difference as it is as fast as its older sibling.
Aside from being small it also comes with several unique features not found on the S4. One of which is the Sound and Shot feature which allows the user to embed a sound clip to a photo taken with the camera. There’s also the Group Play feature that allows several devices to be connected together for easy sharing of photos and music. This device also comes pre-installed with the S Translator app that easily translates text and speech into any other language.
The S View flip cover accessory will be available for the Galaxy S4 Mini. This accessory not only protects the smartphone but also comes with a small window where users can view all sorts of important information.
- Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean
- GSM 850/900/1800/1900, UMTS 850/900/1900/2100, LTE 800/1800/2600
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- Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 1.7 GHz Dual Core
- Qualcomm Adreno 305 GPU
- 1.5 GB RAM
- 8GB internal storage
- 8 MP rear camera
- microSD support up to 64 GB
- 2.1 MP front camera
- Bluetooth 4.0
- 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n
- 1900 mAh removable battery
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The look of Toyota Mitsubishi in overhead florescent lighting and the sound of their Nikes tapping on glossy chessboard tile is almost as appealing as watching them whip their ponytail and ass in reverse for all of Savannah to gag on.
Walking down the aisles of Kroger, Wal-Mart, Target, Buy This Shit And Love It, I feel like we’re a pair of fuzzy dice hanging from a rear-view mirror, bouncing off and into each other—same height, same frame and equal parts hands in the air not giving a fuck.
They were headed to some queer Boho outdoor retreat in Tennessee and I was coming to the Gunt haus for my last, fleeting bit of Kia & Toyota time before the long weekend would turn into hours of nothing in particular slipping by like a time lapse.
For our last domestic hurrah, we drove to Kroger on Gwinnett and walked through the door all lah-de-dah to gather supplies for our respective weekends. I needed cat food. They needed condoms and lube.
“Ok so you go get your pet food and I’ll be over here,” they said making their way towards the pharmacy. I tilted my head.
“What? You’re afraid people will think you’re a hetero?” Keep in mind we were out of drag and make a really cute couple together ;-)
“They’re going to think that anyway,” they called out, then disappeared stage right into the aisle with uncanny timing.
Laughing, I turned on my heels and sauntered my way over to the pet section. Such is life that a typical setting like a gas station or grocery store would be the time your friend off-handedly yells something you hadn’t thought about before. Either way, it didn’t hit me until I was staring head on into the cat food labels:
Outside of my bubbled reality of glitzy showgirls and trash glam queens, the world sees Toyota as straight because, most of the time, they want them to be straight.
They want them to be safe, mainstream, attainable and desired.
It’s not just Mr. & Mrs. LL Bean Fall Collection 2016 who put queers into this box.
It’s the countless Beckys who put their hands on their hips, tilt their heads to the side, and say to my friends, “BUT YOU’RE SOOO HOT! WHY DO YOU HAVE TO BE GAY?!”
It’s the drunk straight boys in the clubs who will inch closer and closer to me no matter how many times I proclaim NOT INTERESTED to the point where I feel their pelvises grinding into my backside and I have to physically push them away.
It’s every time I’ve stood beside my sisters in full Gunty garb and felt crestfallen and helpless as a straight couple or group of frat-centric tourists yells WHAT THE FUCK and FAGGOT ASS at them. You’re straight until proven gay, and then it’s a shooting range.
With the bag of Purina cradled in my arms like a baby, I wondered: how many people in this Kroger, in this city, in this planet will ever see Toyota the way I do.
Or how many will see them as straight until proven gay.
I found them crouched down in front of the glass pharmacy case, inspecting the brightly colored boxes and labels with a green bottle of natural (of course) lube in hand. They turned their head up to me.
“Should I get the kind with spermicide?”
“What? No. Why would you need spermicide?”
Early the next morning I rode my bike around the dewy Savannah streets, feeling the wind blow my hair back and watching the sunlight slip through the tree branches and tangled moss. The air felt comforting and almost aquatic to me. To my right, I saw Toyota through the nouveau riche window display at their job working one more shift just before taking flight to Tennessee.
I pulled over.
Kia Sedona is the resident bio queen and housewife to the Gunties. When she’s not serving exaggerated horror-fem or playing cars with Toyota, she also performs burlesque under the name Edie Bellini. You can follow her misadventures via Instagram @kiatropolis and @ediebellini. | 2017-09-24T04:53:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-39/segments/1505818689874.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170924044206-20170924064206-00635.warc.gz | en | 0.945403 | 948 | {
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You’ve heard it all before haven’t you? Being racially or religiously profiled for your beard, skin colour or clothing. Only recently was a Muslim individual stopped on the streets by a Caucasian woman, because of the clothes he was wearing. These highly deplorable images sail their way onto social media, consequently being met by thousands of protesters in the form of angry Emojis on Facebook.
While such incidents are deplorable, racist and xenophobic they are nonetheless identifiable because of the peripheral nature of its manifestation, that is it can be seen by all individuals. The real issue facing society today however isn’t these rather conspicuous incidents, but rather those that hide under the curtain, disguised and almost perfectly hidden. What I am referring to is the new age academic bias that has been created amongst the intelligentsia, that religious folk can never be quote on quote ‘objective’.
This brings into question the idea of ‘What is objective’ and why religious people seem to be targeted more than any other group. Consider the following example, how many people would you hear pointing out atheism as a cause of one’s bias, or their upbringing and experiences ? The social image constructed regarding religion – post enlightenment period – is one of frustration and religious antagonism. Phrases such as religion being backward, a barrier to progress or the biggest of plight in the twenty first century, are part of the enlightenment narrative.
Dick Gregory in his provocatively titled autobiography ‘Nigger’ says that “I was learning that just being a Negro doesn’t qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.” What stems from Dick’s quote is the fundamental distinction between “experiencing” something and “understanding” it. This logic can further be applied to any group, faith or ideology regardless of its key tenants and laws.
Members of opposite political thought – even though they can overlap from time to time – are most likely to support the political points that are embedded within their respective philosophies. However time and time again, they find themselves on national television debating one another – (insert Theresa May pun here) – in the vain hope of trying to convince the public why their manifesto and party position is more effective than the other.
The question one has to ask is why, if at all, should people consider anyone else’s position if they are to be biased from the first place. To address this issue we actually have to first analyse the most abused word in the English language when it comes to debates: bias.
The definition of bias, according to the oxford dictionary, is as follows: “Inclination or prejudice for or against one person or group, especially in a way considered to be unfair”. What needs to be particularly taken from this definition, is the distinction between having an inclination towards something and on the other hand accepting something as true without any justification and consideration, in other words to be inclined but in a way that is unfair.
Everyone has some form of inclination due to their religious beliefs, life experiences, political affiliation, school, college, family values, upbringing, location, culture and a variety of other things. The fundamental difference between these and religious impetus is solely based on two things: (I) the laws and commandments of religion, are clearly set out and (II) that religion has always had a set biased created against it. Note that on this occasion I use the term bias with its full intended meaning, that is to say, with a sense of unfairness.
It becomes useful at this point to define in context, what we actually mean by ‘unfairness’. In this context we will consider it to be the complete negation of any idea, solely on the basis that it has an association with religion based on the assumption that the individual has no reason other than religion to justify it, or that the individual is trying to superimpose their religious beliefs on others. The problem with this type of thinking is that it assumes (a) religious beliefs are without reason and (b) that specific beliefs within religion are only justifiable by religious cannon and tradition, and not by means other than that, such as pure reason, logic, cause and effect etc.
The hypocrisy in the one making the claim can beautifully be summarised in a incident regarding Professor John Lennox, where he was once told by his opponent during a debate, that he only believed in God because his parents were believers. Lennox later asked his opponent what belief their parents followed, the individual replied “atheists” to which Lennox appropriately responded by saying “really!”.
What Lennox revealed is the blatant hypocrisy that is made in regards to religion that it is neither rational nor capable of being objective. What one doesn’t realize is that every individual can be considered guilty of being under some influence and inclination due his own beliefs, the only difference is we never mention those things to dismiss a particular view because we believe that somehow atheists can be objective while religious people cant. This is definitely not the case.
To illustrate an example of an individual who was a religious scholar, yet was highly objective and met his opponents at an equal footing without the need to retort to revelation, let us take a look at the famous Islamic theologian and philosopher Imam Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali (R.A). During his time one of the major intellectual onslaughts that occurred against the Muslims was that of Greek Philosophy.
Its intricate use of logic and syllogisms was a powerful force in the academic world and the philosophers of that that time were no less famous than figures like Richard Dawkins are today. To counter this issue one could not simply refer to revelation as a defence, rather Imam Ghazali had to counter their arguments using the same methodology his opponents used as well as understanding the relevant fallacies in their arguments. This led to his famous work The Incoherence of the Philosophers (تهافت الفلاسفة Tahāfut al-Falāsifa) that served to become a powerful refutation of these philosophers for centuries. The imperative point about Al-Ghazali’s work wasn’t the quality of his work, but rather his ability to utilize the methodology of his opponent and debate them using reason in their own field.
This demonstrates a religious figures ability to be able to argue rationally – and non-religiously- regarding an issue while remaining as objective as possible. The assumption that religion requires the negation of reason is fundamentally misleading because reading revelation requires reason! It comes as no surprise then that this ability to deal with reason can also be applied in arguing points outside of a religious context.
This brings me to the next concept that I wish to clarify, which is the separation of the divine essence within particular rulings and the social effects that they have. Many Islamic rulings can be thought of like a cross with the vertical axis representing the divine manifestation, and the horizontal axis representing the worldly manifestation of that particular ruling. This is essential in helping people understand that while a particular point has a divine reason for it, it may also have some kind of material manifestation, that can be seen in the real world in the form of cause and effect.
For example take the ruling on giving charity (zakat) in Islam. The vertical aspect involves pleasing God and spreading provision (rizq) that he has bestowed upon you. The horizontal manifestation however can be argued from a purely non-religious and scientific way, using pure reason. We can talk about how it is morally right to help fellow human beings, how someone might desperately be in need, and how doing this can build better and more interconnected societies while reducing poverty. The same sort of examples can be applied to things such as alcohol, music, dress code and even fasting. This sort of materialistic dialogue that is solely based on logic, depends on whether the speaker is interested from a religious point or view or a purely secular one.
We now continuously find non-believers (and ironically believers) that oppose any view by a religious individual based solely on the view that believing in a particular religion will make him/her bias. But as Dr. Mohamed Ghilan mentions in one of his lectures, rather than being apologetic one should rhetorically ask the individual making such claims what makes them more objective than you are ? Surely they are just as influenced by their experiences, upbringing and own thoughts just as much as you. Assuming one is influenced by some ideological force in their lives, (which most of us naturally are) it makes no difference to the point being made. If the individual makes a claim based on pure logic and reason then bringing their religion into the question without acknowledging their point is simply a form of discrimination.
Rather one should recognize that everyone is prone to being somewhat inclined but being part of a particular group, faith, race or ideologically does not make their points less objective than the other. Appealing to your religion and why a particular point in your religion are two very different things, with latter being arguable through completely irreligious means.
A perfect example of this sort of form of duality is presented as one unique concept can be seen in Imam Al-Ghazali’s magnum opus The Revival of Religious Sciences (Ihya’ Ulum al-Din or Ihya’u Ulumiddin) in which he discusses many different religious actions but also acts as a spiritual psychologist, dissecting and discerning different rulings laying bare their effects. While the full sweetness of the text (or its aim) cannot be tasted without its religious aspects, the book also serves as a monument of scientific observation, application of pure reason and analytical psychology to the point that non-Muslim readers can also greatly benefit from his work.
This objectivity is not limited purely to Islamic intellectual thinkers but actually famous Christian ones as well. To quote Lennox “God is not an alternative to science as an explanation, he is not to be understood merely as a God of the gaps, he is the ground of all explanation: it is his existence which gives rise to the very possibility of explanation, scientific or otherwise. It is important to stress this because influential authors such as Richard Dawkins will insist on conceiving of God as an explanatory alternative to science – an idea that is nowhere to be found in theological reflection of any depth. Dawkins is therefore tilting at a windmill – dismissing a concept of God that no serious thinker believes in anyway. Such activity is not necessarily to be regarded as a mark of intellectual sophistication”.
Indeed many scientific figures including Galileo, Maxwell, Newton, Pascal, Kepler and numerous others were driven by their belief in God to do objective science. This is summarized succinctly in a quote by C.S Lewis in which he says ‘Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Legislator.’ Rather than halting scientific progress, religion played a tremendous role in informing the scientific method and the application of logic and rationality. The Quran makes and sets a epistemological impetus for the scientific method in the verse “Do they not look at the Camels, how they are made? And at the Sky, how it is raised high? And at the Mountains, how they are fixed firm? And at the Earth, how it is spread out? Therefore do thou give admonition, for thou art one to admonish.” (Al-Ghashiya – The Overwhelming/The Pall, 17-21). Far from curtailing it, the Quran vigorously commands believers to use their intellect and apply their reason in understanding the universe and all that is in it.
An excellent example showing how the dynamic of being bias and objective can quickly be reversed for the religious and non-religious, can be viewed in the history of the big bang theory and the events that led up to its formulation. The Christian priest and professor of physics Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître published a paper in 1927 titled A homogeneous Universe of constant mass and growing radius accounting for the radial velocity of extragalactic nebulae. The paper was translated into English from Belgian in 1931 shortly after which during a meeting at the British Association, where he was invited to talk on the relationship between the universe and spirituality, Lemaître conceived Of an initial starting point called the “Primeval Atom” from which the universe expanded. Hence giving birth to the idea of the big bang theory.
What gave Lemaître and his ideas solid evidence to further his case was the observations made by the famous American astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble. In 1929 Hubble was able to show that, there was a direct relationship between a Galaxy’s distance and velocity, in what came to be known as Hubble’s law. The implications of this however were that the universe must have begun as a small condensed state and has expanded ever since. Lemaître took this as evidence for his big bang model of the universe. Perhaps what most evidently shows Lemaitre’s success is when Einstein, who once opposed Lemaitre’s ideas and said: “Your calculations are correct, but your physics is atrocious”, came to support his views and adopted the big bang model of the universe.
Scientists however continued to support the idea of a eternal universe for a variety of different reasons that included scientific objections to the Big bang Model such as the inability to explain the formation of galaxies and absence CMB (cosmic background radiation). This led physicists Fred Hoyle and Hermann Bondi proposed the Steady State Model of the universe, which in very simple terms suggested that, the universe could be eternal and unchanging whilst still having galaxies move away from each other as Hubble has predicted. The Steady State Model itself also had problems such as the inability to explain the distribution of galaxies, age of the universe and the observed abundance of light atoms. Much like Smackdown vs RAW – but much more realistic – there were two competing theories in the physics world namely, The Steady State Model and The Big bang Model.
What’s important to observe here is that that many of the scientists who continued to support the Steady State Model of the universe, did so because it was in line with their philosophical presuppositions that the universe was indeed eternal, and did not require a creator. The Big Bang Model implied the universe had a beginning and that necessarily implied it must have some first cause (although in the modern day that is debated). Scientists did indeed – whether you accept it or not – have an underlying inclination, and it caused them to hold tight to a theory that came under increasing scrutiny from emerging evidence. This is a perfect example of how even the non-religious can sometimes be swayed by their philosophical inclinations, and how the religious, in this case Lemaitre, turned out to be right and in line with the evidence. Although one cannot definitively prove that the scientists were biased – since we can never know peoples intentions and thoughts – we can see that their ideas were taken seriously, and that’s what should happen i.e. someone shouldn’t be judged for who they are or what ideology they claim to support, but rather merit ones idea on the basis of its strength and coherence.
The following excerpt from the book ‘Big bang’ by Simon Singh perfectly the underlying attitudes of scientists making the assumption that religious figures cannot be objective: “Like Galileo, Lemaître believed that God had blessed humans with an enquiring mind and that He would look fondly upon scientific cosmology. At the same time, Lemaître kept his physics and his religion separate, declaring that his religious beliefs certainly did not motivate his cosmology. ‘Hundreds of professional and amateur scientists actually believe the Bible pretends to teach science,’ he said. ‘This is a good deal like assuming that there must be authentic religious dogma in the binomial theorem.’ Nevertheless, some scientists continued to believe that theology had negatively influenced the priest’s cosmology. This anti-religious faction complained that his primeval atom theory of creation was nothing more than a pseudo-scientific justification of a master creator, a modern version of the Book of Genesis.” (Simon Singh Big Bang 2010).
One other myth that pervades the social sphere is this idea that all religious figures and thought, are homogenous, static, unchanging and without critical debate and dialogue. Early Islamic theologians debated creed vigorously in a science known to them as Kalam which erupted an atmosphere of intellectual thought and debate. Islamic Law (Fiqh) is most certainly the product of different legal methodologies and thought processes that involved challenging the status quo. Interestingly the four major legal schools of Islam (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi and Hanbali) were begun by figures who were either students or teachers of one another.
A keystone event in history that defines the ability of religious thinkers to oppose the clergy in pursuit of objectivity and truth, can be seen in the life of someone who is regarded as the father of science, namely Galileo Galilei. His scientific curiosity was like an adult who saw everything with the amusement and excitement of a child discovering the world. He made many different scientific observations which included using a pendulum as a timing device and proved that the common assumption that heavier objects fall faster than light objects was wrong. Galileo in 1609 has built the most powerful telescope in the world allowing him too far beyond what the average man could in that time.
In 1610 Galileo made observations that supported the sun-centred model. While evidence for the Sun-centred model of the universe continued to grow in evidence, people still found themselves adhering to the earth centred model of the universe. The religious establishment of the time, The Catholic Church, was unapologetically opposed to the idea of accepting the sun centred model because it contradicted their interpretation of the bible. So much so was this opposition that in 1616 it was declared that holding the Sun-centred view of the universe was heretical. Galileo however remained unperturbed by these events and went where his rational insight took him. A trial against him had begun in April 1633 and left him under indefinite house arrest with much of his work blocked. Later after his death the Sun-centred model of the universe would come to be accepted by most astronomers.
Galileo represents the ideal figure that stood up to the establishment. He preferred truth over comfort, objectivity over subjectivity, rationality over irrationality and reason over dogma. He showed how religious individuals are neither homogenous nor static, and most importantly that some of them, when required, were willing to stand up to their co-religionists when they felt they were tampering and misinforming people of God’s creation. Perhaps Galileo’s beliefs can be summarised in his own words when he said: “I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
The above is just a drop in an ocean of religious scholars, all of whom were the leading thinkers of their time. Much to do with the distrust in religious figures, stems primarily from the birth of modernism occurring between 18th and 19th centuries. The nature of what modernity did to religious thought and prestige goes beyond the scope of this essay, however it should be noted its effects have had a riveting effect on our perception in a way that is constantly reinforced by a liberal and secular worldview, that maintains its assertion that divorce from God is the first step towards reason.
Much of what has been discussed above is simply a close examination of the genetic fallacy. But the aim of the essay is not invoke an exclusive justification for religious folk, rather it is meant to knock on peoples conscious and erupt an awareness that, no matter what colour, race, religion, hair style or brand you decide to wear, the ultimate authenticity of your point lies within the point itself, not in someone’s perceptions about who made that point.
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Crosby sat out last night after suffering a concussion from a hit in Wednesday's game. Bad news for the Penguins, but it could be worse news if rumors are true, and he was injured on Sunday, and played with a concussion.
During the Winter Classic, Crosby took a blindside hit from Dave Steckel:
He certainly looked dazed, and the "armchair neurologists," using HBO footage aired Wednesday night, were quick to diagnose a concussion. But, hours before that 24/7 aired, Crosby played in the Penguins game against Tampa Bay, where he took this hit from Victor Hedman:
Crosby sat out last night's game in Montreal with "mild" concussion symptoms. The company line is the concussion was caused by the Hedman hit. But with that Steckel shoulder, conspiracy theories abounded. Sportsnet's John Shannon and TSN's Darren Dreger were probably the first to put the notion out there publicly, that Crosby was concussed on Sunday, and played with it Wednesday.
Right now, the only person who knows for sure what happened is the man whose brain bounced off the inside of his skull. But let's consider the possibilities.
1) Crosby was shaken by Steckel's hit, but only concussed Wednesday. The Penguins are telling the truth. This is wholly plausible, but no fun.
2) Crosby was concussed Sunday, but kept it from the team. He's a tough kid and it's believable that he'd want to play every game. But how realistic is it that he was able to hide his symptoms, when Pens coach Dan Bylsma said Crosby met with team doctors? Philadelphia's Ian Laperriere kept his concussion symptoms a secret for an entire offseason, even getting on the ice in preseason before it became too much.
3) The Penguins knew Crosby had a minor concussion, and let him play on Wednesday anyway. We can't see why on earth they would put their meal ticket at risk like that, unless it truly was so minor it wasn't affecting him until Hedman's hit made things much worse. But the speculation's naturally focusing on this possibility, as it looks the worst for the NHL, which has made so much of hits to the head and player safety, while mostly escaping the concussion criticisms directed at the NFL.
Expect the league to look into this, because it's one thing when nobodies like Laperriere see their careers ended by poor handling of concussions, but it's another thing entirely when Sidney Crosby misses a game.
Timing of Sidney Crosby's concussion puts heat on Penguins [Puck Daddy]
Sidney Crosby out a week with mild concussion [ProHockey Talk]
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Vivo V5 Plus, a flagship of Vivo V5 is collecting rumors for its amazing features in pocket-friendly prices. Vivo is already giving a tough competition to the other brands like Xiomi, Lenovo, Coolpad, etc. All the other phones of the same brands did good and people are desperately waiting for this flagship.
Vivo V5 Plus has successfully launched in India today with starting price of Rs. 27,980. We will discuss more about the price, keep on reading. This time they really worked on the camera quality. This phone is said to be a camera phone. We will briefly discuss about the camera qualities in this article.
This phone was successfully launched on 25 January 2017. You can easily order it on eCommerce giants like Flipkart, Amazon or can purchase offline according to your convenience. Now, in this section, we will discuss about the display qualities, powerful engine, camera, drawbacks (if any) and much more. Keep reading.
Vivo V5 Plus Price
|Mobile Name||Price||Release Date|
|Vivo V5 Plus||Rs. 27, 980||January 2017|
The price is set according a little high for this handset, however its a high end device with powerful hardware. So vivo fans will not think twice before buying this giant. Let's us talk about specifications of this phone.
Vivo V5 Plus Specification
|Network||Network Mode||2G, 3G, 4G (LTE)|
|Sim Supported||Dual SIM (Dual stand by)|
|Display||Type||IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors|
|Display Size||5.5 inches (~73.8% screen-to-body ratio)|
|Weight||158.6 g (5.61 oz)|
|Screen Resolution||1080 x 1920 pixels (~401 ppi pixel density)|
|Platform||Operating System||Android OS, v6.0 (Marshmallow)|
|Chipset||Qualcomm MSM8953 Snapdragon 625|
|CPU||Octa-core 2.0 GHz Cortex-A53|
|Memory||Inbuilt Memory||64 GB|
|RAM||4 GB RAM|
|Camera||Primary Camera||16 MP, f/2.0 with LED flash|
|Front Camera||Dual 20 MP + 8 MP, f/2.0|
|Video Recording||[email protected]|
|Battery||Non-removable Li-Ion 3160 mAh battery|
|Connectivity||Wifi||Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac|
|Bluetooth||Yes, v4.0, A2DP|
|GPS||Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS|
|Ambient light sensor||Yes|
Is there any Color Variant?
Yes, all the other color variants are available at the same price range as I mentioned above. You can choose your taste from the followings:
Highlighted Features of Vivo V5 Plus
This phone is already catching flames for it’s sleek and sharp designing, It really feels great holding a light weight phone in your palm. In this section we will discuss about the features that make this phone worthy to buy. Also we will discuss about the limitations of Vivo V5 Plus (if any).
It will be a 5.5 inches screen phone with 1080 x 1920 pixels (~401 ppi pixel density) resolution. IPS (In-plane switching) capacitive touchscreen is an addition to the display quality. Watching movies or images is a satisfactory experience for users.
The Best Camera Phone
Before buying any smartphone we usually compare many phones on the basis of their cameras. Let’s see if this phone holds those qualities:
- Back Camera: Also called Primary camera. 16 MP camera with face detection autofocus quality. Optical Image Stabilization (OIS) allows you to capture motioned images without any blur effect. Dual LED (dual tone) flash maintains the image quality at night too.
- Front Camera: Secondary camera or selfie camera of Dual 20 MP + 8 MP these have been co-engineered with Sony for selfie lovers. Vivo V5 Plus is the first Android phone that captures ‘Bokeh’ shots effortlessly.
What is Bokeh shot?
It is the aesthetic quality of the blur produced in the out-of-focus parts of an image produced by a lens which gives an artistic effect to your captured images. This effect is directly concerned with the beauty or the appearance of any image. Bokeh has been defined as “the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light”.
Qualcomm MSM8953 Snapdragon 625 chipset with Octa-core 2.0 GHz Cortex-A53 is used in this phone. Adreno 506 (GPU) is an addition to the fluency. A good processor and adequate RAM makes this phone run smoothly and pleasant performance is the point of attraction.
The giant processor can run heavy games and all the installed applications at the same time. Now you can enjoy your games without lacking, which is a good news for gamers like me. A perfect device for all groups of ages, especially for gamers Few more things
- Android OS, v6.0 (Marshmallow), one of the most advanced version of android platform
Before buying any phone, we always think about the RAM capacity. Vio V5 Plus is coming with 4 GB RAM, Performance wise this phone is doing good so far. Yet not finished!
- The phone is coming with a fixed storage capacity of 64 GB which can be expanded upto 256 GB.
Other Key Features
- Fingerprint scanner (Front-mounted)
- Non-removable Li-Ion 3160 mAh battery
- Fast Charging
Cons of Vivo V5 Plus
This time the developers have really worked great on the cameras but there are few things, not up to the level. Let’s discuss about them:
- Rear Camera: The picture quality is not so far satisfied. The captured images lack detailing. Low light images are not that clear.
- Chipset: Qualcomm MSM8953 Snapdragon 625 that powers Vivo V5 Plus is not an upgraded chipset although the phone works well.
- Sound Quality: The sound quality of this phone is not that impressive. Where OnePlus 3T is giving an amazing experience, Vivo V5 Plus lacks.
Rivals of Vivo V5 Plus
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Mark Steel, a British comedian, presents a look at the life and importance of Oliver Cromwell, the 17th century English leader who led a republican government from 1653 to 1658.
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Totally isolated peacefully facility with great spirit receptinests. Unique style with unique atmosphere. Nearby attraction places. I would suggest escape there any time during the period October-March.
We checked in this hotel for one night after a game of golf at Windvalley Golf club in OCT East Shenzhen on 5 Nov 2014 . We chosed this hotel because it is very near to the golf course (7 mins drive/20 minutes walk).
It was much better than we thought. They have a great and clean swimming pool, which no one had mentioned about on trip advisor. The rooms were great. Its very close to the tea stream valley. Great service and good choice for breakfast & dinner...More
This hotel is a part of a theme park.
I stayed on 2011 for 1 day with a tour package.
The park overall is just like a mini-town. I really like the theme of the hotels. There are about 4 themes, and this one is...More
I just back to my home and can't wait to write sth to share. OCT is actually very Chinese style MONEY MONEY all the time. First you need to pay for bus from the park to hotel. Then you need to pay for room upgrade...More
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US$69 - US$109 (Based on Average Rates for a Standard Room)
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#146 Best Value Hotel in Shenzhen
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“Nau Mai, Haere Mai”
Welcome to Our Little Fish
Te Ika Iti
Cool Kids of Te Ika Iti
“Stay Cool ’til After School”
Term Two – 2019
Room 4 is now called “Te Ika Iti” or “The Little Fish” to reflect who we are as the youngest class in the school and where we are located next to the Waihou River.
Like a school of little fish everyone is swimming together towards, working together at new challenges, each in their own way and with respect for each others differences and talents.
Everyone is unique with their own special strengths and talents and when everyone works together as a team “great things are achieved!”
We look forward to exciting new learning experiences, to forming positive relationships and growing a strong sense of SELF as we become aware of who we are, where we belong, and what we are capable of achieving.
Te Ika iti of Turua School
We have started Term Two as a class of 14 children who are eager, caring and kind.
Who love to learn, to share, and engage in new challenges.
Daily Learning “Through Play” activities encourages decision making, problem solving, communication and negotiation skills while building early learning skills in reading, writing and maths. Learning through discovery, sharing, talking…
“Learning floats on a sea of Oral Language”
Our Learning Goals are focused on the concept of Tataiako – Key Competencies, relating to learning achievement and capabilities as outlined in the New Zealand Curriculum and School Charter.
Tangata Whenuatanga – Place-based, cultural awareness and learning
Ako – Practice in the classroom and beyond
Wanaungatanga – Building Positive Relationships
Manaakitanga – Values and virtues – integrity, sincerity, trust
Wananga – C0mmunication, problem solving, innovation
Getting on together, organising ourselves for learning and working cooperatively as a team form the foundation on which young children achieve and grow as capable , self-confident learners who are willing to “have a go”.
Turua School -Wide Topic Focus
The Big Blue
Term One: The Rocky Shore – who lives here and why the need for environmental awareness
Term Two: Myths and Legends – Te Ika O Maui – The Fish of Maui – Our Place – Next to the water
Te Marae Visit and Celebrations for Matariki
Term Three: The Mammals who live in the Ocean and Man’s impact on the wellbeing of our oceans
Term Four: Recreational Use of Water and the Need to look after our precious Resources
(to be added to with more detail as the term progresses)
Te Marae Visit planned will involve a full day excursion to Kerepehi Marae.
More detail to come home closer to the date.
Our Class Notice Board
Te Ika iti is connected to an app called Class Dojo.
This is our own sharing website and is accessible only to parents, whanau and students who are signed into the Room 4. The class teacher invites you to join via your email. Class Dojo enables messaging between individual parents and the teacher as well as a shared page for class stories, photos. We are in the process of introducing Student Folders so you can access your own child’s work.
Just a reminder that our weekly Turua School Newsletter is also available on this website under the Homepage or clink on the link here.
If you have any concerns about your child’s well being or progress, please feel free to email me or make an appointment to meet before or after school.
Tissues for Class Use
Could Room 4 children bring their own box of tissues to use in class, thank you.
Our School Library
Our library day is Tuesday and your child is able to take out 2 Books each week, for up to 2 weeks. Library books need to be returned each Tuesday so that your child can take out new books. The Library Computer keeps a record of books each child takes out and will not issue more until books are returned and scanned back into the system.
The school’s expectation is that children in the junior school will spend approximately 20 minutes each night on home learning. Monday to Friday, children will bring home a guided reader to read with you. Please complete the Kluwell Reading Journal with your child and keep this in their book bag. A weekly poem comes home on Friday. Often the same reader will come home for 2 or 3 nights to help your child become familiar with reading and enjoy the experience as they gain confidence and fluency with a familiar text.
Learning Activities for you to use at home…
Click on this link to NZ Maths Website which provides many activities and games for you to work with your child at home. Click on this link to Interactive Maths Games and Activities to play at home. www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/3-5-years/counting
You can read Sunshine Classic books on-line through clicking on this link:
Your child can record themselves reading a book and work on a variety of word building activities.
Click on this link to Interactive Literacy Games and Activities to play at home. https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/3-5-years/letters-and-sounds
The Wordlab Phonics spelling programme uses a structured approach to spelling . We begin with learning all the letter names and the sounds they make within words. As we progress with recognition of letters and listening to their sounds we can begin to learn words.
These will be sent home as one word a day to spell aloud and as the year progresses, the children are encouraged to copy and write each word and use word building activities.
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A restorative shampoo containing a complex of Amino Acids. Anti-ageing extracts from Lotus flower and Orchid help to renew youthful lustre and shine to dry brittle hair.
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How much to you love yellow and gray? It’s hot hot hot right now!!! And it really is a gorgeous color palette for spring.
Design Team Member Melissa Oliveira and what is more perfect than using some Tim Holtz Core’dinations Cardstock!? Available in the Distress and Adirondack color, they are the perfect staple in any paper crafters collection!
Melissa also used cardstock from the Cut and Emboss Tim Holtz/Sizzix series for the smaller, embossed pieces. Get out those Sizzix folders! Don’t they look awesome?
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Are you tired of playing your favourite songs or movies on home theatre speakers that sound too weak? Are you looking for a way to set up the home theatre system of your dreams? JENSEN speakers are everything you've been looking for and more. JENSEN speakers can accommodate all your home theatre system requirements, from in-ceiling speakers to ground rumbling subwoofer speakers. Our entire range of high quality home theatre speakers are built as well as they sound, with options such as elegant glass panels and piano finish gloss paint.
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Decorative handmade items revealing the traditional art of handcrafting are popularly known as Handicrafts. Depicting the traditional art form these items has led to a certain increase in demand for the Suppliers in India. Indian Handicrafts reveals rich and vibrant culture of the imperial states of this magnificent land. Each figment presented is the result of sheer dedication of skilled craftsmen revealing the culture of variant states namely, Tripura and Manipur, Assam, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Kashmir, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and so on.
Indian Handicrafts are acclaimed worldwide for their vibrant color schemes and creative designs. They are gaining popularity in the countries in abroad in a wide. The handicrafts are skillfully made by the traditional craftsmen so as to deliver the best pieces meant to enhance each and every corner of your abode. Ethnic Handicrafts include a wide array of bedcovers, cushion covers, bed spread, and decorative table cloths and so on. Due to an increased demand for these handicrafts the market is available with a number of Indian Handicraft Suppliers in USA providing ultimate solutions to meet the decorative demands of its clients.
Handcraft collection makes a unique combination of creativity, craftsmanship and skilled labor resulting in an outstanding piece to adorn your abode. Due to an increasing demand for handicraft items in abroad a remarkable increase can be seen in the number of Indian Handicraft Supplier in Florida. The handicraft items come with variant options flaunting a wide variety to choose as per ones demand. Some popular type of Handicraft collections available in the market are:
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Traced to the Indus valley civilization the Textile crafts are rated among one of the finest examples of craftsmanship. Knitting, quilting, applique and weaving come under the Textile Crafts. This form of Indian handicrafts deals with fabrics, fabrics and fabrics resulting in a tremendous range including Bed covers, Pillow covers, Table mats, bags, curtains and so on.
b) Paper Crafts
Paper Craft items are the most popular Handicrafts coming up with an increased demand in the market. Crafted from a fine quality paper they make an ideal option to compliment any type of abode. These artistically designed items often make a good option to gift. Indian Handicraft suppliers in USA comes with a variety of designs and patterns giving out a fabulous collection of Drawing Portfolio, Dairy and notebooks, Desktop accessories, writing set, lamp shades, paper puppets and other decorative items.
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Multivariate statistics for categorical outcomes
Choice of multivariate statistical test depends upon the type of categorical outcome
Survival or time-to-event analysis falls under the guise of multivariate statistics with categorical outcomes. These types of statistics are used to understand the temporal differences among independent groups in terms of developing an outcome or disease state. When conducting survival statistics, researchers need a primary predictor variable denoting group membership, a dichotomous categorical outcome variable with one level defined as the "event," and some sort of time signature associated with developing the outcome. The time increment of the temporal differences can be in seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or even years, depending upon the etiology and prognosis of the event or disease state of interest.
Choosing the correct multivariate statistical test for a categorical outcome or ordinal outcome depends upon the number of levels of the variable that are being measured.
What type of categorical outcome is being used for multivariate statistics?
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If you are looking for a great place to spend a vacation in and you are hoping to get soaked with history and beauty, then Beijing is the place to be. Very few cities in the world can ever equal what Beijing has to offer. Unlike any other city in the world, there is not one, not two; but seven UNESCO World Heritage Site in the city alone.
It means that this Chinese city lacks only one more to equal that of the whole Egypt. The best part is that while history plays a very significant role in the whole image and character of the city, Beijing also boasts some of the finest modern architectural beauties in the world.
Best way to enjoy Beijing
When you are in the city, you will never fail to appreciate the exciting combination of ancient and modern architecture. Beijing has so much to offer both its residents and visitors alike. It’s not every day that you could get to experience the sophisticated feel of a modern city as well as the exotic impression of being in an ancient place that has been there for generations before you.
You can expect all sorts of fun in Beijing that you may feel that just being in the city completes your whole vacation experience. This however is a misleading thought because there is one more that can truly make your whole Beijing experience unique.
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Book the services of a professional escort and you will definitely up your definition of fun. While you can experience Beijing and appreciate its beauty alone, having a graceful and lovely courtesan lady by your side, you will get to know and experience the historic city in a more up close and intimate manner. Tour around the city, visit the historic sites and revel on their beauty as your escort introduces each attraction to you.
Know that your lovely courtesan lady will be more than just a tour guide as she will definitely make it a point that you are having the best time of your life. When you have your fill of these attractions, you can always discover a great restaurant and share a delicious meal together. With a talented, smart and witty travel companion, you will never be bored in your vacation.
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The Merry & Married Ornament is the perfect gift or purchase for anyone who has just been married. The first Christmas of a marriage is something special to remember forever. Oh how merry it is to be married. Honor your first Christmas as Mr. and Mrs. with this fun Christmas ornament. The wreath, polka dot pattern detail and hand-lettered script makes this a perfect and timeless keepsake for newlyweds. | 2023-10-02T10:39:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510994.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20231002100910-20231002130910-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.940685 | 86 | {
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The American Civil Liberties Union wants hackers and developers to take its treasure trove of torture documents and make apps and data visualizations with it. The goal? Hold the U.S. government accountable while giving Americans a better glimpse into the Bush administration's so-called "enhanced interrogation" practices.
The initiative is part of The National Day of Civic Hacking, an event promoted by the White House and other partners to liberate government data for coders and entrepreneurs. The idea is to allow citizens, developers and hackers to use the datasets however they see fit with the goal of making information more accessible to the public. The event is happening June 1st and 2nd online and with physical events across the country.
For the ACLU, this was the perfect occasion to do something a little different.
Chris Soghoian, the ACLU principal technologist and senior policy analyst, argued to Mashable that when the government willingly releases data to the public, it's normally information that can make citizens' lives more convenient — data relating to potholes or subway arrival times, for example. Rarely is it controversial data that might help citizens hold the government accountable.
That's the idea behind the API that the ACLU has released for the National Day of Civic Hacking. The API opens the door to its "Torture Database," a dataset the ACLU launched last year containing more than 100,000 pages of government documents relating to the Bush's administration treatment of detainees after 9/11.
"This is not about giving you information to what movies are playing in your neighborhood, or which restaurant is getting the 'A' letter grade from the public health department," Soghoian said in a phone interview. "There are many, many kinds of data that developers can access, but I don't know of any other open API that when you submit a query, you get in response redacted CIA documents."
The documents were obtained by the ACLU after a lengthy legal battle following a Freedom of Information Act request submitted in 2003. According to the ACLU, the files are "the largest public repository of primary-source documents" showing what happened to suspected terrorist who were detained abroad and transported between CIA black sites (a practice called "extraordinary rendition"). That's where most of them were questioned with what the administration defined "enhanced interrogation techniques."
The database contains all sorts of material, from the infamous legal memos authorizing the CIA to use enhanced interrogation techniques to CIA and military emails that discuss the interrogation policies, and authorizations for the use of torture coming "from the highest levels of government," according to the ACLU blog post announcing the API.
Given their highly sensitive and historical nature, the ACLU thinks this dataset will be very attractive to politically motivated developers with interests in government transparency and accountability, as Soghoian explained.
"The incidents that are documented in our database, they document a very bad time in America's history. This is something that none of us are really proud of, [and] our government hasn't been held accountable." Soghoian said. "And the best way to make that happen is to make it as easy as possible for people to look at this information."
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Today I’m sharing an exciting new experiment I’m trying with the Mini Edition of the Lively Show on Tuesdays: Intention Questions!
I’m looking to answer any questions you have for me that you think I could help with, or pertain to the four major life areas I focus on in my Values-based intention work: possessions, personal habits, relationships, and career.
To find out how to ask a question and be on the show, listen to today’s episode.
Submit Your Question
If you have a question, please share it through the Speakpipe widget below (your message will be played on the show if your question is selected!).
As a thank you to the listeners who get featured on the show, I’m also sending some intention tattoos their way!
To find out if your question has been featured, check out The Lively Show Mini Editions each Tuesday coming up! (We’ll also email you for your address for the tattoos as well.)
[PLEASE NOTE: I’m not looking to give small business advice in this segment. Ideally, each question I select will be broad enough that it can benefit most listeners, self-employed or not.]
IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL FIND OUT ABOUT
- The conference I’m excited to speak at this January.
- How to submit a question you’d like me to answer here on the show (your voice & question will be on the show, too!).
- The one topic I’m not looking to answer questions about.
- The free intention goodie that each listener who has a question featured on the show receives.
LISTEN TO THE SHOW
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Let’s see… How about a stunning flag pole Christmas tree?
Christmas is here again! Festivals are not only a time for joy, but also for ideas to burn up. If you are out of ideas? Take a walk, and you’ll realize they all uniquely beautify their homes.
Try something different this Christmas!
What A Flag Pole Christmas Tree Looks Like?
A Christmas tree created from a flagpole is a great idea that many people use to create magnificent visuals.
Actuality, the new approach of using the flagpole to generate Christmas tree ideas was a creative thing, instead of hanging a Christmas flag on a flagpole.
However, due to its beautiful and fresh attractiveness, the Xmas tree from the flagpole has recently gained popularity. Stores even provided kits to make a flagpole Christmas tree, which, of course, sold well!
As its trunk is a flagpole 20ft to 30ft tall, the tree from the flagpole will normally be quite tall. The colorful LED strings will work as the “leaves,” and from there you can add any decoration to make the most dazzling Christmas tree.
How To Build A Flag Pole Christmas Tree?
Are you looking for a festive and enjoyable way to decorate your home for the holidays? If so, you may want to consider building a christmas tree flagpole. This one-of-a-kind decoration is sure to spread festive cheer throughout your neighborhood!
Things You Need
Building a flagpole Christmas tree is relatively easy and only requires a few materials. You will need a flagpole, a Christmas tree, lights, and decorations.
Building a Christmas tree from a flagpole is pretty close to decorating a simple Christmas tree.
To begin, you will require a lengthy string of lights. To ensure you can connect electricity at ground level, consider lengthy strings of lights, perhaps a bit longer than the length of your flagpole.
Following that are electrical accessories such as power outlets, adapters, plugs, and so on. To ensure safety, you must pay attention to the specifications as well as the power source. It is advisable to consult an expert to ensure that your job is well-lit while also remaining electrically safe.
Finally, there are the Christmas decorations. You can put whatever accessories you want on it. However, don’t be greedy and bring up the tree too much. It will reduce the beauty of the work and make the lights heavier.
In addition, these will help your project flow more smoothly.
- Flag Pole Christmas Tree Kit: It contains all the supplies you will need for your project, including flagpoles, string lights, and other basic accessories.
- Christmas Lights&Decorations
- Twinkly Light Tree – App-Controlled: This allows you to control the lights on your Christmas tree remotely and automatically via a phone app. However, not all types of lights can be connected to the app, therefore you must purchase the appropriate sort of light that permits remote control via the phone app.
- Christmas Tree Adapter: Allows you to connect to many different power sources.
Ways To Go
Once you have all of your materials, it’s time to turn your ideas into real artwork. Just enter your ideas and go! Here’s how you can build your own flag pole Christmas tree:
The first thing you should look into is the power supply. Check to see if the flagpole lights are working. This is a critical step in terms of safety, so double-check it, and it is better to have an expert inspect it.
After ensuring the power supply, you will proceed to install the light line. Lower the flagpole to its lowest position and secure the adapters and light poles to the top of the flagpole.
Slowly raise the flagpole’s height. As you hoist, you re-align the lights to keep them in place and from becoming tangled.
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Real Trees Vs Artificial Trees: Which one brings a better look?
Let’s take a look at the beauty effects of natural and artificial Christmas trees.
Traditional Christmas tree
There is no need to argue about its meaning and beauty. It brings a rare green color in the middle of winter, symbolizing the beauty of life in the cold season. A natural beauty that hardly anyone can “artificial” completely.
Many people love natural Christmas trees because of the very real feeling of touching the leaves, the rough trunk of a real pine tree, not being made of plastic, or adding any other color paint. In addition, the natural scent of pine makes them feel comfortable and close.
There are even families that plant a pine tree in the garden, take care of it, and decorate it every time it comes to Christmas, as a familiar part of their home.
Artificial pine tree
For those who always love new things but don’t have too much time. Decorating the Christmas tree is an annual joy for every family that all members look forward to.
However, if you don’t have too much time to care for and prepare a natural Christmas tree, the Christmas trees available at the store are a great choice.
The advantage of artificial pine trees is that it is durable even without much maintenance or care. It also comes in a variety of sizes and is already “pre-decor” for you, and all you have to do is cover it with the most eye-catching decorations. After the holidays, you can store it in storage and reuse it the following year.
So, which one is better? Perhaps everyone will have a different answer. The natural Christmas tree brings out traditional and natural beauty, while the artificial Christmas tree brings out vibrant, colorful, and modern beauty.
Christmas is a time for us to be spoiled with different decorating styles, and the idea of the flag pole Christmas tree is a great thing that you can try for Christmas this year. It will definitely surprise everyone! Keep following Flagwix for more great Christmas gift ideas, decor ideas, and more.
* Flagwix is proud to be the flag brand that brings unique custom decorative flags to customers – Decorate every year, every occasion, every moment. And there are many more unique decorations that you can discover more at Flagwix – so stay tuned! *
When Is the Best Time to Buy a Christmas Tree?
Usually the biggest sales will fall on Black Friday. But often the best time to buy a real Christmas tree is after Thanksgiving. It will save you from having to spend a lot of effort jostling at the stores, and the price is still guaranteed at the lowest price.
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FEBRUARY 17, 2018
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University of Calgary
Exposure’s Portfolio Review offers participating photographers the opportunity to present their work to influential members of the photographic community. Whether you are showing a completed body of photographic work or you are seeking feedback on work in progress, meetings with these photography professionals will provide you with advice, guidance, and networking opportunities. Photographers share their work with reviewers in twenty-minute one-on-one meetings. Each participating photographer will receive at least four meetings with reviewers, assigned by lottery. Reviewer preference forms will be emailed to participants when they have registered for the event. An informal reception for participants will be held at the conclusion of the reviews. The 2018 Portfolio Review is presented in partnership with The Nickle Galleries, University of Calgary.
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Man slips onto parked 737 jet
By CHRIS TISCH, Times Staff Writer
CLEARWATER -- A man slipped onto the ramp area of the St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport early Tuesday morning, boarded a 737 and sat down in the 10th row before a mechanic confronted him.
The mechanic was working on the wing of another plane about 2:45 a.m. when he saw the man climbing a set of stairs to the door of the empty American Trans Air 737.
Concerned that the man didn't appear to have an access badge, the mechanic followed him into the aircraft, then called 911 on his cell phone.
Pinellas sheriff's deputies responded, then took the man, 40-year-old Richard N. Moore, into custody on a trespassing charge. Deputies said Moore's last known address was an apartment in Tampa.
Airport officials, as well as the Transportation Security Administration, will investigate.
"Obviously, it's some kind of breach, and we're going to check that out," said Brian Doyle, a spokesman for the TSA, which was formed after Sept. 11, 2001, to oversee security at 429 airports nationwide.
Deputies will forward their reports to federal aviation officials for potential federal charges, said Detective Cal Dennie, a sheriff's office spokesman.
"My question is, 'How did he get that far?' " Dennie said.
Sheriff's officials said Moore told them he had no idea how he gained access to the airport. He appeared to be disoriented and told deputies he was taking the anti-anxiety drug Xanax. He also said he sometimes blacks out and walks in his sleep.
Moore admitted, however, that he saw signs forbidding trespassing in the area, and knew he wasn't allowed to be there, deputies said.
"Moore stated he wanted to take a plane ride," Deputy Jeff Capra wrote in an arrest affidavit.
Dennie said Moore's clothes were wet and dirty.
Tom Jewsbury, the airport's operations director, said officials don't know how he gained access to the airport.
"We're not sure if he jumped the barbed wire or what," Jewsbury said. "He didn't know where he was or how he got there. He said he wanted to work out details with an airline so he could fly out."
Jewsbury said a fence borders the airport except where it meets the waters of Old Tampa Bay. The fence does not jut into the water because that could impede water rescues. Jewsbury acknowledged someone probably could get around the fence. where it meets the water.
But he said the walk from that area to the ramp where the planes sit overnight is at least a mile. An immediate check of all the airport's gates and doors after Moore's arrest showed they were secured.
"I think this is very unusual," said Doyle, the TSA spokesman. "Security is a sieve. It's not perfect. Obviously, it's very odd that this . . . guy was able to wander in there somehow."
Sheriff's deputies summoned bomb-sniffing dogs to check the planes and surrounding area, but found no explosives. A background check on Moore showed nothing suspicious, including no previous arrest record in Florida.
ATA officials said the plane Moore boarded, which holds 175 passengers, probably left Tuesday morning for Chicago or Indianapolis.
Jewsbury said sheriff's officials and the airport's operations department check the facility's perimeter at night.
He said the entry of unauthorized people onto airport grounds is extremely unusual. The only previous case he could remember occurred years ago, and that person was caught before he got over the fence.
Officials praised the ATA mechanic, Miguel Santos, who saw Moore and confronted him. Officials said airline employees have been trained to be more vigilant after Sept. 11.
Santos, reached at his Tampa home Tuesday afternoon, referred questions to company officials, who had no comment.
"Good or bad, the system did work," said Doyle, the TSA spokesman. "A sharp-eyed employee saw him and challenged him.
"We try to create layers of security from the curbside to the cockpit," Doyle added. "As weird as this is, our security layers worked."
Security expert Doug Laird agreed, but wondered what would have happened if the mechanic had not seen the man.
"I think what it does is highlight that there are many vulnerabilities at airports," Laird said.
Jewsbury said airport officials were looking at upgrading the security fencing before this happened. He said officials also have been meeting with TSA officials to improve the airport's security.
Moore was released from the Pinellas County Jail on his own recognizance Tuesday. He could not be reached for comment.
-- Chris Tisch can be reached at (727) 445-4156 or email@example.com . Times researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report.
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Painters Hall is a 100 percent solar-powered building nestled in the beautiful surroundings of quiet Pringle Creek community, in Salem, Oregon. The 80-year-old Painters Hall recently earned a LEED-Platinum, net-zero energy certification, and it also received an impressive ‘Petal Recognition’ under the Living Building Challenge. The building underwent an extensive renovation in 2010, and it recently became just one of two buildings in the country to receive the net-zero recognition after recent energy audits.
Originally built in 1932, Painters Hall was upgraded by Opsis Architecture. Net-zero means that a building meets its own energy needs through conservation and renewable energy production. To be officially awarded the net-zero certification, a building must have at least 12 months of operational data, and Painters Hall held its weight under the challenge.
Painters Hall is surrounded by green space and lawns that are relaxing spaces for visitors to enjoy, and the cafe team uses their solar panels to prepare what sounds like delicious “all-natural” menu. Furnished with an eclectic bunch of chairs and tables, the space is a redesign of the former state-owned facilities, where painters would work and store supplies and equipment. It still contains several leftover items salvaged from the renovation and uses old greenhouses to help the cafe team grow their own fruit and veggies for their meals.
Speaking to a local paper, a member of the Pringle Creek development team said that making the Hall a central point for the community was essential to the renovation. “The most important element of the certification is not solar panels or energy efficient systems, it’s community,” he said. “Community is probably the most valuable form of energy the building will give back over its lifetime.”
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At GBMP’s launch of the Shingo Institute’s BUILD EXCELLENCE workshop, it occurred to me that perhaps systems thinking might be more aptly named systems rethinking. Workshop participants offered up current systems in their organizations that actually impeded continuous improvement, each time expressing frustration with the difficulty to create system change. For larger organizations with more explicit codification of systems, the task to create a change was more onerous. One class participant commented, “Our standard procedures are documented in dozens of binders – all of them covered with dust.” But even in smaller organizations, creating a new system will mean undoing a de facto process that, despite its shortcomings, feels normal.
According to the Shingo Institute, these systems are the domain of managers who should be reviewing them regularly. But, when business systems are ingrained as part of the corporate fabric, the idea of changing even one of them instills concern regarding the global effects. Will changing one system negatively impact others? Concern for unanticipated consequences will trigger risk-averse behavior. Add to that challenge the fact that existing systems may, in fact, have been authored by the same persons who are now charged with evaluating their effectiveness. When Shigeo Shingo declared that subjective inspection of one’s own work is not good practice, he might have included the work of managers along with that of front line employees. It would be better apparently for these organizations to have no systems to start their Lean journeys than to be saddled with status quo systems that evoke the wrong behaviors. So, what can be done?
According to the Shingo Institute:
First, stop basing the design of systems purely on local results. This practice creates silos and disharmony. Each part of the organization is rewarded as if it were its own company, rather than for its contribution to system goals. Speaking at a Shingo Conference many years ago, Russ Scaffede, formerly an executive at General Motors (and later at Toyota) quipped, “At GM we used to say ‘All of our divisions made money, only the corporation lost its shirt.’” That is the status quo condition for many organizations: local bogeys driven by systems that simply don’t knit together.
Second, consider the foundational principles beneath the Lean tools, or, as Shigeo Shingo noted, first ‘know-why’ before you ‘know-how.’ Many organizations parrot the tools without understanding the philosophy that makes them effective. Simply layering tools on top of a faulty philosophy also generates disharmony rather than real results. Many organizations, for example, have invested time to develop a quality system like ISO including QC tools and problem-solving methods; but employees are afraid to report problems for fear of reprisal. Shingo Principles articulate the culture that must be present to make systems work.
Finally, to avoid concerns regarding the interdependency of systems, i.e., the unanticipated consequences make the changes small; in the words of Masaaki Imai, “create many small changes for the better.” Don’t let the policy books gather dust; review and update them often. To use a metaphor from knitting, check and adjust your systems one thread at a time. Don’t let the knitting unravel. It’s called tinking, the process of taking knitting back stitch by stitch to correct a problem in the fabric. (Tink is knit spelled backward.) In this case, let’s call it “Systems Tinking.”
P.S. Speaking of the ‘know-why’ before the ‘know-how’, GBMP’s Lean conference is coming to Worcester MA on September 19-20. The theme for our 13th annual event – “The Integration of Culture & Tools” – will be an exploration of the value of Lean tools when embedded with a Lean culture. I know September feels like a long way off, but it’ll be here before you know it. The event features four keynote presenters including Paul Akers, author of ‘2-Second Lean’ & Brian Wellinghoff from Barry Wehmiller, plus 30+ breakout sessions and more than a dozen poster presentations for yokoten in our Community of Lean Lounge. Simply put, it’s the best opportunity for Lean learning and networking with professionals just like yourself – passionate Lean practitioners. Early bird registration discount (save close to $200!) in effect through May 31. That’s tomorrow folks. I hope you take advantage of the savings. But don’t take my word for it. Check out the agenda at a glance, testimonials and photos from last year’s event and much much more on the website and decide for yourself. I sure hope to see you in September! | 2020-11-26T04:24:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141186414.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20201126030729-20201126060729-00030.warc.gz | en | 0.944246 | 1,015 | {
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